Tonight I felt quite inspired to read up on some of my past articles and see if I could learn anything from them.

You see, through the process of teaching, the teacher is able to learn a tremendous amount.

In fact, sometimes, through the process we come up with ideas and concepts in the spur of the moment which can even be somewhat new to us: teachings that are important for both the reader and the writer to review and embody.

Instead of giving you a full new post for you to read today, I’d love for you to review one of my former posts. Below are the three that I read tonight. Read the title and short description, pick one that resonates with you, and enjoy:

How to Achieve Success Through High Expectations: Have you ever thought to yourself, “I would love to achieve those goals…but I don’t expect them to come true…” ?? Here is a fantastic way for setting your goals, maintaining high expectations, while also being flexible for the universe to provide as it sees best.

A Simple Formula for Being Happy Regardless of Circumstance: Seemingly terrible, terrible things happen in life. It’s an unavoidable fact. People die. Houses burn down. We lose investments. It happens! Here are some great methods for rolling with the flows and maintaining happiness through anything that comes your way.

The Blessings of Failures: This is one of my personal favorites. Throughout life most of us have somehow developed the belief that failure is a terrible thing to happen. I ask you though, is it really? Read this and you’ll learn how all the failures you’ve ever had were simply blessings in disguise.

Have you ever had the attitude of, ‘When I commit to something, I STAY committed and I will stick with it until the end no matter what!!” ?

Is that attitude a good one to have?

Most I imagine would say yes! How couldn’t it be? It demonstrates the incredible quality of commitment!

While commitment can indeed be great, I encourage you to consider another perspective for a moment…

See, commitment can actually be dangerous. So can persistence, dedication and other qualities that on the surface appear to be grandeur.

To demonstrate this point, I’ll share with you (more…)

Yesterday afternoon while I was browsing the Steve Pavlina forums, I engaged in a very interesting discussion regarding the unhealthy nature of the concept ‘hard work,’ which was posted by senior forum member Cylon. In it he asks the question, “If it’s fun does it still count as “Hard Work?”

Due to the great insight both him and I received from the discussion, I had to share with you some of the highlights.

Hard Work and Stress

Cylon: “I think the concept of “hard work” as we use it in our western culture today, is unhealthy…on one extreme, embracing it can turn you into a stressed out workaholic, who has stress related illness, and dies young…On the other extreme, many people who may actually enjoy taking some deliberate, focused action will avoid it unnecessarily because they have associated any action whatsoever as being “hard” or “difficult” (basically, no pleasure involved)”

In my opinion the concept that (more…)

The Law of Reciprocity simply states, “What you give out to the world comes right back to you.” That applies for both the positive and negative. When you give out bad energy, bad energy comes back. When you give out good energy, good energy comes back.

In other words, if you’re someone who gives away lots of love, you can expect lots of love to come back.

If you’re quite frankly an asshole…then you’re going to find a lot of people being assholes and jerks right back at you.

Straight up.

The Paper Boy

When I moved into a new home in San Diego in January of 2008, I began (more…)

If you read my last blog post, you understand that it is critically important to determine ‘what’ you want before even considering ‘how’ to achieve it.  Once you’ve done that and you’ve committed to achieving your ‘what,’ then you must learn how to ‘allow!’

What really got me thinking about this topic was a few weeks ago when I was attending a Jack Canfield seminar. I was speaking to a lady I met named Aurora who was telling me that she’s got some lofty goals, some of which include working with thought leaders, but she doesn’t ‘expect’ to necessarily get them on board.

‘WHAT?! Aurora!’

The passion within me about the topic exploded like a volcano when she told me she wasn’t expecting!

Suddenly I got into a somewhat passionate preachy mode about having high expectations even when the dream (more…)

A very important lesson I learned while under John Assaraf’s wing was that…

The “what” comes before the “how.”

What does that mean?

Consider this: We all have ‘wants’ in our life: material, spiritual, relationship, and contribution (as well as others).  That is our ‘what.’

What most people do however is as soon as they think of ‘what’ they want, they immediately begin to list out all the reasons why they can’t have it! They think, “well ‘how’ in the world could I possibly achieve that?”

And when they’re asking that question, they are asking with a belief that it can’t happen, and thus attracting into their life all the reasons why they can’t achieve that dream.

That’s all they see: the reasons why not!

If you’ve had a dream in the past 10 years in which you (more…)

Last week Thursday I discussed the concept of sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth (which I learned from Alex Mandossian), and how it applies to your financial life. The big ‘a-ha’ I mentioned in that post referred to when I realized the concept applies to spirituality as well. I’ll discuss that in a moment, but first…

Here are a few more thoughts on the financial issue.

Over the last year and a half, every now and then I would get frustrated in my work place thinking, “I deserve to be earning way more money than this…” And honestly, I really did deserve more! For the value and skillsets I brought to the table, I deserved a heck of a lot more. And many of my co-workers felt the same thing and thought, ‘you’re getting paid what?! Sean, the value you bring to this company is worth far more!’

My lesson to learn though was…
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Tonight I had an a-ha moment!

I was thinking about the last year and a half in which I’ve been working at a job with a minimal salary, why I was willing to do that, and why I’m willing to continue doing that.

It’s the concept of ‘sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth,’ I learned from my mentor Alex Mandossian.

While I’ve been primarily correlating that term with the concepts of financial wealth, this evening I connected it to my own life in a completely different way.

I’ll first explain it in the most common way though, which is financial wealth.

I believe that there are many people in this world that (more…)

If you haven’t read ‘Taken Under the Wing of John Assaraf from the Secret (Part 2)’, I suggest you do so now before reading on…

After moving out of my parents home in September of 2007, I quickly found myself running out of money since I wasn’t working. About a month and a half into the Having It All Challenge I realized I wasn’t going to be able to pay for my next month of rent and had to figure something out fast!

I began thinking through my options and realized a great choice was to find someone that would let me move in with them free of rent for a couple months. I asked one person and was turned down, but in my mind I simply said, “NEXT!”

(Be sure to say ‘NEXT’ whenever you (more…)

If you haven’t read ‘(How I Was) Taken Under the Wing of John Assaraf from the Secret (Part 1)’, be sure to do so before reading on…

The Pain of Drastic Change:

When I joined the Having it All Challenge at the end of August 2007, I was temporarily living with my parents before heading back for my final year of college education in Washington. In their minds I would be leaving around the middle of September (I hadn’t told them about the Challenge or that my intention was to not go back to school!)

Even after joining the challenge, I didn’t tell them for another two weeks about my decision because I feared their reaction. Once I did tell them, my unease proved to be right: I was invited to leave home and given one week to find a new place to live. (more…)