Today I would like to walk you through my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity. This routine allows me to optimize my body, mind, and spirit so that I can perform at my best, every day.

I’m a big believer in the power of rituals. I’ve been doing them since I was 17 years old. I used to struggle with shyness, social anxiety, and depression.

By creating a morning ritual, I was able to recondition my beliefs and transform every area of my life.

The morning is the best time to condition your mindset. Research shows that your mood in the morning affects your productivity all day.

Are you ready to wake up every day, feeling more productive, energized, and happier? My morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity will allow you to make that happen.

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Discipline is one of greatest barriers that prevent people from achieving success in life. If you want to build habits that stick, you need to be consistent with them. In the words of Tony Robbins says, “The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

How you start the day is how you end the day. If you only engage in a habit once in a while, it won’t stick. It’s what you do consistently that makes the difference.

How do you start your mornings?

If you wake up in a reactive state, you will move throughout your entire day feeling stressed and anxious. A lot of people believe that they need a triple espresso as soon as they get out of bed. This way of thinking is counterintuitive.

My morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity provides me with a natural ‘buzz.' It makes me feel unstoppable, without the negative effects that come from over-use of stimulants.

Do you wake up every morning, feeling tired and sluggish, even though you slept for 8 hours? If so, it’s time to start a morning ritual.

If you want to maximize your productivity, you need to spend the first part of your morning taking care of YOU. If you make your job, your partner, or your friends a priority, then you need to commit to making yourself a priority as well.

Just like you train your body at the gym, you need to train your brain every day. I treat myself as if I am a high-performance athlete. I know that if I want to get the most out of myself, I have to create rituals that will allow me to do just that.

In order to make sure that I successfully complete my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity, I create a list and check-off each activity, as I complete it.

The purpose of a checklist is so that I can visually measure my progress as time goes on. If you don’t have a plan for your life and you just move throughout your day aimlessly, then you’re not going to get the most out of it.

Here is my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity:

1. Smile

The first thing that I do the moment that I wake up is smile. When you start your day with gratitude, it shifts your entire perspective. Every day that you are alive is a gift, and you need to treat it as such. Don’t ever take your life for granted.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t feel happy and positive 100% every morning, but by training myself to smile and start the day in an empowering way, I am setting myself up for success.

Research shows that when you smile, neurochemicals and peptides are released, which tricks your body into raising your dopamine; which in turn raises your spirits and calms your nervous system.

2. Drink Water

After you’ve been sleeping for 7-8 hours your body is dehydrated, and your cells crave water. I’ve got a water ionizer that I use which produces high quality, 9.5 alkaline water.

By drinking water first thing in the morning, you kick-start your metabolism, which will give you immediate energy and flush out toxins from your body.

3. Take Supplements

I start off by taking a shot of apple cider vinegar, which is a great bacteria killer. Then, on an empty stomach, I take a digestive enzyme supplement called, Masszymes. I also take a variety of other supplements, like B12 and Vitamin D3.

Supplements like these ensure that I have energy throughout the day, so that I never have to rely on caffeine or sugar. More importantly, engaging in this body ritual ensures that I will experience optimal health and performance, over the long-term.

4. Read A Book

I spend at least 10 minutes every morning reading an inspiring book on my Kindle reader. Don’t start your day by obsessing over social media, or reading negative things on the news. Instead, try feeding your mind with positive information and commit to learning something new.

5. Write in my Journals

After reading a book, I like to write in my Five Minute Journal, a simple exercise that allows me to focus on what is most important for me to accomplish throughout my day.

I also write in my Productivity Planner, which offers a similar process. I write down what my most important task for the day is, what my secondary tasks of importance are, and then determine what my daily productivity score is.

For those of you who are spiritual, I also write in my Christian gratitude journal.

6. Lie Down On My PEMF Mat

A PEMF mat is a portable mat that produces pulsed electromagnetic fields around an individual’s body. I lie on this mat every morning and do my meditation.

The health benefits of PEMF are amazing, some of which include regenerating nerves, reducing stress and fatigue, and eliminating bodily toxins.

I hope you enjoyed learning about my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity! If you want the more in-depth version, that covers all of my rituals, then join my 7-day course, Morning Ritual Mastery.

Rituals have been the secret to my success, and have allowed me to become the person that I am today. Invest in yourself. Your body, mind, and spirit deserve it.

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I would like to share 3 benefits of minimalism that extend to all areas of life. Through life's ups and downs, it is important that we remember to take the time to enjoy the simple things in life. We need to be grateful for what we have, and focus on finding meaning in our lives.

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not filled with stress and frustration. Minimalism is a state of being, a simple approach to life, that can help us do more with less.  In the words of Vernon Howard, “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”

That is why I wanted to invite Will Chou, the founder of Will You Laugh, a self-development blog that focuses on the secrets to success, to write a guest post to talk about 3 benefits of minimalism that extend to all areas of life.

Take it away, Will!

When I first discovered minimalism, I was a mess of a person and I thought it was stupid. But everything has changed now.  To explain my change of opinion, we have to go back to the beginning. When I first discovered minimalism, I really wanted to travel the world for a living.

At the time, I was disillusioned with my career paths and confused about my future. I was struggling to find work I could enjoy and the job opportunities that I was offered, sucked. To put it simply, like many Millennials, I had chosen a tough college major that I loved (pre-med Biology) but realized too late that it wasn’t my passion (after graduation).

My days of despair led me to seek escapism on the Internet. I discovered a large group of online bloggers that had a huge following and who called themselves, “travel hackers.”

Essentially, they would travel to exotic places for a living and make their living by “hacking life.” They were able to achieve a level of financial freedom that most people would envy. At first, I wasn't sold on this whole idea of minimalism, but that soon changed. Today, I want to share with you the three benefits of minimalism that extend to all areas of life:

1. You Will Stay Organized and Clean

I had always been a messy person. Despite my best efforts to stay clean, my room would quickly morph into a mess of junk. To put it simply, the more items you have, the more opportunity it is for it to make you feel and appear messy.

When you only have a couple of items on your desk, it’s never going to look that messy no matter how long you delay cleaning it up. It’s shocking how few people understand or use this habit. Nowadays, I have applied this minimalist philosophy to every area of my life.

2. You Will Achieve More By Working Less

A lot of people make the mistake of approaching their daily to-do list with a reactive state of mind. They take on too many tasks on a daily basis, many of which are unimportant. When they look back at what they have accomplished, they are surprised by their lack of progress.

A solution is a form of minimalism called essentialism. The concept is simple. Focus on one to three tasks per day. Make sure they are the most important tasks that will make the biggest impact on the accomplishment of your goals. If you do this right, you will realize that you’re doing less work but getting more results by prioritizing and cutting out the unnecessary.

3. You Feel Happier and Less Stressed

Not so long ago, I was frustrated with my progress, both professionally and personally. I didn’t have quality friends, I wasn't earning much, and I was lost and without direction in my dating life.

It was confusing because I had always worked super hard in school and “done the right things.” After doing a lot of research on success, happy people, and the science of happiness, I came up with a simple mantra that has helped me a lot. It goes something like, “As long as I have air, water, food, a healthy mind, and a healthy body, I am happy.”

This mantra reminds me to lead a simple, happy life. By living this philosophy, I have become a much happier, more relaxed, and lighter person.

I Am Not A Minimalist And I Don’t Want You To Be. 

Wait, what? After all, I have said, I’m now revealing that I’m not a minimalist, I don’t intend to be one. Why? I can't say that I would be happy with living a lifestyle of extreme minimalism, and that’s OK. What I love about some minimalist influencers out there is that they’re not telling you to become a minimalist.

Rather, they are encouraging that you adopt the minimalist practices that work for you. That’s where I stand. I will be rich one day and I will buy expensive experiences, but the items and services I do buy will be fewer than the average person, and they will be focused on memorable experiences, rather than a desire to hold onto possession.

It’s important not to swing from one extreme perspective (“Everything you buy has value so you should hoard it.”) to the other (“Nothing has value so get rid of it all.”). The truth lies closer to the middle.

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I would like to share with you 5 tricks on how to sleep better and wake up with unstoppable energy. Do you get enough sleep, or do you wake up feeling constantly tired and drained? If so, you aren’t alone.

Sleep seems like a very simple thing, but it's an undervalued activity. In today’s stress-induced, technology driven, coffee addicted world, it’s more important than ever before.

All of these stimulants interfere with our natural sleep/wake cycle. Unfortunately, a lot of people suffer from chronic lack of sleep.

New research suggests that a good night's rest isn't a luxury – it's critical for your brain and for your health.

A good night’s sleep is essential to optimal health. Are you ready to wake up every day feeling energized and refreshed on an emotional, mental, and physical level?

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I always thought, because I got 7-8 hours of sleep every night, I was set. However, it wasn’t until I purchased an OURA ring that I realized that I wasn’t getting enough deep sleep.

The OURA ring, otherwise known as the world’s first ring-size wellness computer, is a high-performance activity and sleep tracker.

When you are sleeping there are three different sleep cycles that you go through – deep, REM, and light. Deep sleep is the most restorative and beneficial form of sleep.

With the OURA ring, I am able to track my sleeping patterns, and what I found was that my deep sleep was really low.

You want to have up to 2 hours of deep sleep every night. The OURA ring showed me that, some nights, I was only getting 10-20 minutes of deep sleep.

I took a step back and asked myself, “Why is it that I sleep for 8 hours, but still move throughout my day feeling tired?” 

It’s not just about quantity of your sleep that matters. The quality of your sleep is just as important, if not more.

Research shows that sleep deprivation can be a possible risk factor for serious physical conditions, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and suppression of the immune system. This proves the importance that sleep plays in the impact of our overall health and well-being.

You spend one-third of your life sleeping, so you want to make sure that you are doing it right! Sleep has the power to transform your entire life. Literally.

Below are 5 tips on how to sleep better and wake up with unstoppable energy. I’ve personally tested all of these things and they’ve made a huge difference in my life:

1. Swannies Blue Blocker Sunglasses

I wear Swannies Blue Blocker sunglasses in the evening time. Their purpose is to block out the harmful lights and rays that prevent my body from releasing melatonin and falling asleep. If you use your phone, watch TV, or are using your computer at night, turn these off a few hours before bed.

2. Sleep Master Sleep Mask

This is like a pillow for your face. The Sleep Master sleep mask helps with light elimination AND sound reduction.

It’s really important to make sure that your room is pitch black when you go to sleep. In fact, Arianna Huffington wrote a book called, Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time. She swears by it when she travels.

3. ChiliPad

The ChiliPad is a mattress pad with a cooling and heating temperature control system that allows you to cool or heat the temperature of your mattress so that you will never be too hot or too cold.

This is important because the temperature that you sleep at effects the quality of your deep sleep. This is a great product to use if you sleep with a partner, given that research shows 95% of partners enjoy different temperature levels when they sleep.

4. PEMFs

A PEMF Mat is a portable mat that produces pulsed electromagnetic fields around an individual’s body. This field then delivers healing energy to the body by producing negative ions and far infrared waves.

Another great alternative is the Earth Pulse sleep machine, which utilizes electrically generated pulsed electromagnetic fields to program the brain toward deep sleep. Both of these products have helped to drastically improve my sleep.

5. Melatonin, CBD, or GABA supplements

Melatonin is a hormone in the body that regulates your cycle of sleeping and waking. It is a great supplement to use if you are jet lagged, because it resets your wake cycle. That being said, I suggest you make an effort to regulate your sleep cycle naturally as much as possible.

Cannabidiol, or CBD oil, as it is commonly referred to, works with the body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS), which is responsible for all the homeostatic functions of the body. CBD can be extremely effective in regulating your REM sleep.

Lastly, GABA is a neuroinhibitory transmitter, which is what your brain uses in order to shut itself down at the end of the day. Any of these supplements are great options for achieving a better sleep.

How To Sleep Better

The healing power of sleep cannot be ignored. I suggest that you follow these 5 tricks on how to sleep better and wake up with unstoppable energy.

They will make a drastic improvement in your energy levels throughout the day and your overall mood. Sleep supports your mind, body, and spirit.

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I would like to share with you how to stay focused and productive, without getting overwhelmed or stressed.

No matter how successful you are, there will always be days when you don’t feel on top of your game. Have you ever had so much on your to-do list that no matter how well you prioritize your work, you have no idea where to start?

It’s normal to feel overwhelmed when you have endless deadlines to meet, a business to run, a family to provide for, or a staff that is relying on you. Given these circumstance, it’s nearly impossible to not experience stress.

Our ability to succeed at anything in life is directly linked to our ability to stay focused and productive, without getting overwhelmed or stressed.

Are you ready to master the quality of focus so that you can achieve more with greater ease and confidence?

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Below are 3 ways for how to stay focused and productive, without getting overwhelmed or stressed:

1. Accomplish More By Doing Less

People get overwhelmed when they commit to too many things. The brain becomes frazzled and people lose focus when they feel that they have too much to do and too little time to do it.

According to psychologist Daniel Kahneman, “It is the mark of effortful activities that they interfere with each other, which is why it is difficult or impossible to conduct several at once.

Multitasking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It doesn’t allow you to be more productive. Rather, it creates stress. The key to not getting overwhelmed and stressed is to work smart, not hard, which means narrowing your focus on the few things that matter the most.

Every day I ask myself, “What are the 3 highest leverage actions that I need to take in order to achieve success?” When you master those 3 things, you will find the motivation to do and achieve more.

2. Outsource Tasks

When you run a business, it can be tempting to do everything yourself. Nobody knows your business more than you, right? This way of thinking is what gets people into trouble.  The reality is that financial success occurs when you work ON your business, not IN your business.

Outsourcing some of your most simple business tasks can save you a lot of time and energy. More importantly, it will free up your time so that you can focus on what is most important and be more productive.

Make a list of everything that you are currently doing and ask yourself on a scale of 1-10 how important that task is. Then determine what you can outsource. In the words of Peter Drucker, “Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.”

3. Calm Your Mind

Meditation is one of the most effective ways to cope with stress and increase your ability to concentrate. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience found that people who regularly practice meditation may improve their mental focus by altering brain function.

Meditation isn’t about emptying your mind. Rather, it’s about conditioning the mind to focus on one thing. It’s natural for the mind to wander, but if you commit to doing it every day, you will see a massive shift in your ability to focus on tasks over time.

In the words of Deepak Chopra, “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet; it’s a way of entering into the quiet that is already there, buried under the 50,000 thoughts that the average person thinks every day.”

These are just a few ways of how to stay focused and productive, without getting overwhelmed or stressed. Are you ready to get back to a life of flow and ease? You don't have to live in a state of overwhelm. A worry-free life is yours for the taking. The choice is yours!

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I would like to share with you how to deal with adversity, problems and difficult times in life.

Whether you like it or not, challenges are a normal part of life. Things will happen that are out of your control. How you choose to respond to those challenges when they arise is reflective of your emotional state.

It is easy to get caught in the trap of “why me” or “life is unfair”, but these limiting beliefs don’t serve your higher self.

In the words of Tony Robbins, “When your life doesn’t match your blueprint of how you expect it to be, you're upset, but when it doesn’t match and you feel that theres nothing you can do, that’s when people suffer.”

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The good news is that there is ALWAYS something that you can do.  Take a new approach to life. Focus on creating beliefs that empower you to take action and rise above the obstacles that are standing in your way of success. So many people live in a state of stress because they are unable to control what happens to them. Stress manifests itself when expectations cannot be met.

You have two choices – you can either change your reality or change your expectations. When life doesn’t match our expectations, it’s easy to feel like we have failed, but life itself is uncertain. I guarantee you that there will be times when things don’t work out the way that you planned.

You can do your best to make your ‘perfect plan’ in life unfold, but there are so many events in life that are outside of our control. What would happen if you stepped back, surrendered, and stopped controlling everything in your life?

In the words of Eckhart Tolle, “Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”  There is freedom in letting go of expectations and control. We don’t fully understand our strengths until we are tested by adversity, problems, and difficult times in life.

Trust the process of life, relinquish control, and know that everything happens for a reason. I'm not saying that you shouldn’t prepare and work hard in life, but learn to accept whatever happens, and be okay with it. If you took this perspective, what would this do for your life?

In the words of Ann Landers, “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all – this too shall pass.” Have complete acceptance of what is and faith that all is well in your world.

When you adopt this mindset, you will more easily attract what you want into your life. No matter how tough things appear right now, trust that you will make it through, and that you will come out the other end stronger and more powerful than ever before.

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Video transcript:

Let me ask you a question. What would happen to you in your life if you stop trying to control things as much, that you did everything you could to succeed, to achieve your goals, to take action but you let go of the attachments of things happening the way that you believe are supposed to happen. Now, the reason why I bring that up is I see a lot of people in life that they're always stressed out and stress comes when your expectations aren't being met. When you're always trying to control life and believing that life has to be a certain way and this has to happen or this shouldn't happen.

Then often times, what happens is people, they're always stressed out, they always have anxiety, they're always living in fear, they're always suffering on some level. Because life is totally uncertain. Life is unknown. You could do the best that you can that create the life that you want to achieve your goals and results.I can promise you, there's going to be parts of life, of things that are going to occur that aren't going to work out the way you want them to work out. I find so many people, what happens is, things happen in life and they resist things so much. They resist emotions, they resist outcomes and results that occur.

Whenever you resist, persist in your life. I was actually having a conversation with a coach and he said that, we're talking about this. All emotions only last 90 seconds. That's it. All emotions last 90 seconds unless you resist them. See, a lot of people … If you just let an emotion be, you don't judge it, you don't try to control it, you don't try to resist it and think I shouldn't feel this way or whatever it is, it just passes. Every emotion will pass, everything that you're going to through right now will pass. Every failure, or adversity, or hardship, or challenge that you're going through or problem will pass.

If you just trust the process of life and relinquish that control of things always happen to be a certain way. My belief is, I love working hard and hustling. There's a time in my life where it's just hustle and it's just always trying to control things in my life. As a result, I was always stressed. Don't get me wrong. I like the hustle mentality. I love people like Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone. The crush it mentality but that is a very stressed way of living life. I believe in the hustle but also trusting that everything happens for a reason.

Trusting that I'm guided, trusting that everything will work out because it always does. It always does. Everything always works out. Did you find that in your life? I remember for me years ago, I was so attached to at one point, just meeting women. I was a single guy and I wanted to get a girlfriend. I was so attached to that outcome become a reality. As a result, I was always frustrated and upset because I didn't have that result. Things didn't work out the way I wanted to. I'd go out and I try to meet someone, it didn't work out. I get a phone number, I called the girl and she wouldn't call me back.

I was always stressed, I was always in pain, I was always suffering. It wasn't until I just let go of the outcome. I said, “You know what? I'm going to go out. I'm going to meet people. I'm going to be myself. I'm going to grow to be the best I can be. I'm going to add value and serve.” Then, whatever happens, happens. Whatever happens, happens. Whatever turns up in my life and I create, I manifest, that's okay. If I'm meant to attract this person and meant to be in my life, they will. If not, that's okay, too. I understand that for some of you, you're so left brain analytical that you close off to something being a little bit more metaphysical.

Something more open and something more having faith, is really what it is. Because faith is a reason to believe when there's no reason to believe. It's having certainty in total uncertainty just because you decide to. Having the belief that things always happen the way they're supposed to. When I relinquish that control, you know what happen? I started to attract people in my life. I start to attract women in my life and have a much better experience of that because … I wasn't always stressed, I wasn't always attached to the outcome and things having to be a certain way.

Things wouldn't work out with this one girl and I say, “Thank you, God. Thank you. What's next? What's next?” You know what? I was grateful for that because that made an opening for the right person to be in my life. I remember years ago, many years actually throughout my early 20s and beyond that before that. I remember this one girl broke my heart. There's been many that broke my heart. I was really attached to them and I thought they're amazing and I was in love with them. At the time when that happened, I was devastated. I was like really hurt and sad and depressed over that.

Today, I'm like, “Thank you. Thank you so much.” Because I'm so grateful that I'm not with that person. I'm so grateful that it wasn't the right fit for me. Nothing wrong with them but just aligned with who I am and everything. I'm grateful for that but at the time, I couldn't see beyond that because I was very attached to things being with that person and having a certain expectation of that. I'm grateful for that because if I was with that person and things worked out the way that I wanted them to, I would be miserable. I'd be unhappy. I will not be who I am today.

Because it didn't work out and I'm so thankful for the universe or God or whatever you want to call it that it didn't work out, it's allowed me to attract the woman that I'm meant to spend my life with today, and for me to be who I am today. Because I was just so short sighted, I wasn't able to see that. I wasn't able to have altitude and perspective. I remember times with my business man, I remember years ago, I was learning internet marketing and I was doing some gray hat search engine optimization at the time which involved getting all these backlinks to your site that were like low-quality backlinks.

I was like ranking and making some money and getting some results from that. I was like getting excited for that. What happened was, Google changed their algorithms and then, boom. My website got wiped out. All my traffic went away and I remember being so stressed about that and so upset and devastated. I tried all these things to control the outcome. Today, I'm so thankful for that. I'm thankful for that because if that didn't happen, I wouldn't have learned the right way of doing things and I wouldn't have gone through what I needed to go through that led me into different direction to having a life and who I am today.

I'm sure I can go on and on but I'm sure you have moments like that, too. Moments of your life that were painful and challenging, devastating for you adversity. That you look back upon today and you're like, “Wow. I'm actually happy that things didn't work out the way that I wanted them to. Because I'm on the other side now and things are much better.” Why go through the suffering? Why go through the pain of that? Why go through the frustration, the stress that a lot of people have to go through, instead of just trusting life.

Trusting that everything happens the way it's supposed to. Trusting that everything happens for a reason and a purpose and that it serves you. Maybe believing that you're guided. Maybe believing that everything is a gift and a blessing in disguise because I believe that it really is. Everything serves a purpose in your life. Again, I know this is spiritual or deeper for some of you. Maybe some of you haven't … Your consciousness is not open to this yet and that's fine.

Some of you are like, “Yeah, this is awesome.” For me, it's not until … Because I was there. I've been in that mentality, don't get me wrong. I've been there and I've now evolved.  I feel in many different ways where I just trust, “Hey, you know what? Things happen.” I remember actually just today, what happened was, I was recording this videos about an hour-long video and it was a really good video. I was like, “Man, I'm crushing this video right now. It's going awesome.” Then, I went to my computer, I took the memory card to look at the video. Half of the audio was missing because the battery on my mic died.

In the past, oh my God. In the past, I would have been like, “Oh, my God. This is horrible.” I just spent an hour and it didn't work out. I would just gotten so stressed and upset. It would ruin my whole day. You know what happened today? I was like, “Yeah, that's all right. That's okay. It just wasn't meant to be that way.” I said, “You know, that's fine. I'm just going to do it again.” It was an hour but that hour maybe it was a blessing. Maybe the new video is going to be better. Or maybe it's going to help me and serve me in some way.

Whereas it meant to happen this way, so I can learn to check my battery and make sure my battery is there, so that this doesn't happen again. I just looked at in a positive way and I didn't fight it, I didn't resist life, I didn't resist what happened. I just said, “Ah, this is meant to happen.” Therefore, I didn't have any stress. I didn't get upset. I didn't freak out. I just trusted that this is just part of life. It's part of my journey, my process. I remember a good friend of mine who's a public speaker. We're in Palm Springs one time and he was going to speak at this event in front of about a thousand people.

I said, “Okay. Do you know what you're going to say? Are you ready? Have you rehearsed and memorized or stuff?” He said, “I got no idea what I'm going to say.” I said, “What? What do you mean? How can you just go out there to a thousand people. You had to speak for an hour or two. You have no idea what you're going to say.” He said, “You know what? I'm going to go up there. I'm just going to trust. I'm going to trust that whatever comes out of me, is guided in me and was meant to come out that way. Then, if it's a great speech, awesome. It was meant to be great. If it's a horrible speech, it was meant to be horrible.”

He released the attachment of it. Therefore, he didn't have any stress or anxiety. He trusted that things happen the way it's supposed to. Now, of course, I'm not saying that you shouldn't prepare. I'm not saying that you shouldn't work hard. I'm not saying that you should just sit there in your couch and just believe that everything is going to work out for you in your life. Of course, you have to take action. You got to take the necessary things in life and do what's required. At the same time, what I'm saying is, accepting the results. Being okay with it. Not fighting as much. Not resisting as much.

Trusting that everything is happening for a higher purpose. What would that do for you in your life? How would that free you? What would that do for your body, your health? I don't know about you but for me, I feel more free in my body. I feel more relaxed, I feel more peaceful, I feel happier for sure. I remember the book, The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. There's a, maybe it wasn't in this book. He had a followup one called, I think called The Way of The Peaceful Warrior or something like that. Shared a story about someone that their house got burnt down. They're outside the house, the house is burning down.

It goes, “God, that's fine.” It didn't have any attachment to him. He's like, “You know, this materialistic stuff doesn't define me. I'm not attached to it. It's not who I am. It's not like I got to take this house with me into the afterlife and once I pass on.” He didn't have attachment to that. I said, “You know what? This was meant to happen. Everything will work out. Everything will be fine. It always has, always will.” He just had a free mentality about it. I just offer this as a different perspective for you today. Accept it if you like. Reject it if you resist it. Whatever. If you're open to it, great. If you're not, that's fine, too.

Not everyone is. Not everyone thinks this way. I want to offer this to you for those that are open to it and that are wanting to maybe evolve to a higher level than just things happening by me but things happening through me. There's actually a model for this. I won't have time today to go into it but as things happening to you, things happening by you, things happening through you or things happening as you. By you is a lot of people, they jump in the river of life and they're trying to go upstream and they're trying to swim. What happens is, you get exhausted when you're hustling all the time.

It's like, “Ha, ha, ha. Hustle, hustle, hustle.” You know, hustling. You tire yourself out, you burn out. That's the hustle mentality a lot of people live in. Whereas, things happening through you are more … You're hustling, you're making progress, you're moving your feet but you're not resisting as much in life, is really what it is. I'll maybe go deeper into that in another video. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this. It can help you just understand that life is great, life is beautiful. Everything happens for a reason and a purpose. Open your mind up to that, create new beliefs that empower you and serve you.

Take on a different approach to life, a more fulfillment. Because why are we stressed all the time? Why worry all the time? Why have anxiety all the time? What was the things you worry about, you're stressed about, you have anxiety about don't even come to fruition anyway. If you ever had that, it's like you're worrying about something. The thing you're worrying about, ended up being totally fine. Then, why did you have to spend those days and weeks worrying about something and suffering over when it's not even … It's so silly to actually do that. It doesn't really make any sense. Just trust the process of life more.

Trust that there's a higher purpose. Trust the universe or God, if you may. Whatever your belief is but relinquish some of that control and trust. Stop trying to resist as much. You'll be fine. I don't care how tough things are right now for you. You will make it through it. You will. It's just a temporary road block. It's just a temporary hurdle. When you come out the other side of it, they'll be better off for it. If you look at it that way, if you choose to perceive things that way. Then, it will. All right, my friends.

Thank you so much for joining today. God bless. Leave a comment below. Subscribe for more videos and I'll talk to you guys again soon. Take care.  Please leave a comment below or let me know any questions you have.  I'd love to hear what you think!

I would like to share with you how to make stress and anxiety your friend.

There are so many negative associations with the words, ‘stress’ and ‘anxiety’. These emotions are real and can be very debilitating for many people.

I want to offer you a different way of looking at these emotions. What if you could use stress and anxiety to your advantage, and proactively change your life for the better?  I’m here to show you how.

I experience stress and anxiety in my life, but I don’t view them as bad things. Why? I believe that in order to grow and achieve your goals, you have to step outside of your comfort zone.

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The comfort zone, as defined by Lifehacker, is a “behavioural space where your activities and behaviours fit a routine and pattern that minimizes stress and risk” — the operative words here being “stress” and “risk”. We all have a zone of comfort that is safe. We are wired to seek out comfort, which is why it is so hard to break away from it.

When we step outside of our comfort zone that is when we experience the most stress and anxiety. You might be wondering, “Then what is the point? I want to minimize negative emotions, not increase them.” Because in order to be the person that you desire to be, you need to take a risk. Those who are willing to do so will achieve the greatest rewards.

The magic happens when we place ourselves in challenging environments, when we are pushed to achieve our goals. Psychologists that have found that, when we challenge ourselves, we tend to rise to the occasion (Beck, 2012). T. Harv Eker said it best – “Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!”

Living uncomfortably is the only way to live. When you are uncomfortable, it makes you grow and stretch yourself. I am willing to purposely experience stress and anxiety. I know that my success depends, in part, on my ability to embrace these emotions with an open heart.

These emotions provide me with opportunities to do more, in my business and in my life. Unfortunately, too many people play it safe on a daily basis, and people wonder why they don’t achieve their goals. You need to place yourself in challenging situations. When you push yourself and embrace the unknown, you conquer your fears.

How would it feel if stress and anxiety were your friend? What would happen if you changed your perception of these stereotypically negative emotions? I always want to create more in my business, and sometimes that makes me nervous. However, I know that it is what I need to do in order to achieve more success.

For example, public speaking still makes me a little anxious, but I do it because it helps me grow as a speaker, it makes a difference in the lives of others, and it fulfills my mission. It’s a win-win.

I was very socially awkward in my early years. People always ask, “Stefan, how did you overcome your shyness and social anxiety?” Simple. I faced it, head-on. Don’t shy away from stress and anxiety. Move through it. Challenges in life are normal. They are blessings in disguise, which exist in order to make us better people.

When you change your perception and view challenges as opportunities to enhance your life, instead of worsening it, you master your life. You can’t always control the events that happen in your life, but you can control the meaning that you ascribe to those events.

Have you ever looked back at a stressful time in your life and been grateful for the experience because it allowed you to be the person that you are today? I know I have. Life is designed to teach you valuable lessons so that you can learn and grow from each experience.  Life is the greatest teacher of all. Make stress and anxiety your friend, not your foe.

I hope my words shed light on how to make stress and anxiety your friend. Trust that whatever happens in life, you can handle it. Be brave, take risks, and be fearless under pressure.

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