Thursday, May 13, 2021

Eric Edmeades abundance masterclass at Better You Academy 13.05.21


 
Your environment has a huge impact on your quality of life and your trajectory (destination).


We sadly often accept and tolerate our environment. Toleration is not a virtue! It means you put up with stuff.

Toleration is like another app open in your phone - it uses extra energy. 

If you tolerate things, there will come a point where you can't tolerate it anymore and then you will snap.

Whenever you clear some of these things, you will free up extra energy.


Exercise: take a look at the things you are tolerating and make a plan to do something about it.

What is it costing you if you are not doing it?


Sleeping place: turn your bedroom into a temple of sleep.

Turn your bedroom lightproof. Make it cool (18 degrees C).

Leave your phone outside of your bedroom.

Open the windows 2 hours before sleep for fresh air.

Go to bed sooner.

Get away from the computer before sleep.

Try moving the position of your bed - it might affect your sleeping quality.

Kruger park nightsounds (Youtube) - your DNA likes it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHgW0Ab0vDI


Your health space: your kitchen and your food storage area. Take a look at what you are tolerating there.

Your kitchen should be your temple to your health.

What changes could you make right now to make it feel like a supportive place?


Productivity.

If you work from home, take a look at what you could do to create a zone for productivity.

Get some file folders (31+12+1  -days, months and one for next year).


The overall environment.

Your home, your house, your neighborhood, your country. We live in the times where you can move pretty easily. The cost of living might be lower somewhere else. You can live in a place that is much cheaper.

When you know it's temporary, it's much easier to tolerate.

Live in a place that recharges your batteries.


Take a look at areas of lack in your life and top them up (toothpaste, gas, charge your phone etc). 

If you operate from lack, it will resonate with more lack and bring you more of it.


If you are suffering from something, it helps when you know it doesn't last forever. If you can, hange it, if you can`t change it then move, if you can`t move then have some faith that it is going to change in the future.


It's always a good idea to have some emergency food in your deep freezer (quality meat, fish, poultry etc).


Don`t use words “I can`t afford it” , say something like “I choose to spend my money elsewhere” instead. 


How to maximise your sense of time:
have a good relationship with food (a balanced metabolic health).
Learn what to say no. Train yourself not to answer to everybody, train your team to answer for you. You really need to guard your time.

Our success is determined by our focus and our ability to say no.


Overwhelm is a result of not knowing how the brain works.

If you are worried or overwhelmed, you are constantly being reminded of some things that need to be done. If you don`t create a system to hold these things, you are going to be overwhelmed.
Write down all the things that you have been worried about in the past. Then cross through the things that didn`t happen. Over 90% of the things we constantly worry about, never happen. And even if it did happen - are you grateful it happened?

Every time you worry about something - write it down. Worry is a fear that you forget about it. If it's written down, your subconscious doesn`t have to remind you of it to you any more.


“Do more by doing less” - an article from Eric Edmeades:
https://ericedmeades.medium.com/get-more-done-by-doing-less-16c6dea0e5e


Put things you need to do in three categories: needs to get done today, in the near future, and you let God handle it.


Celebration is really important - you need to celebrate every time you get something done from your list.


Be grateful that you can pay for things. Life is a mirror. If you are willing to pay for things, you start expecting others to do the same for you.


Abundance is a frequency that you create in your life by changing some things in your environment.


If you are desperate for money, nobody wants to give it to you. When you don`t need it, everybody wants to offer it to you.


The more chilled you are about the stuff you want to attract, the easier it is to attract it.



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Friday, April 9, 2021

"Social connection through social media" with Sonia Zarbatany - notes from Better You Academy Masterclass, 8th of April 2021


Sonia Zarbatany came to Better You Academy to speak about creating an engaging community on social media. Here are my notes from that masterclass.


Is social media using you or are you using social media?


The most important thing you can do in life is to be in intention!


Make compelling stories!

Are you there to educate?


Provide value and create community!

Ask yourself: "Why are you on social media?"
Get clarity! Then you will know what to do specifically.


Get clear on why people are going to follow you.

What is the platform you are going to use? Is it Instagram, FB (great for community), LinkedIn, TikTok, Reels (TikTok for Instagram)?


Do you have a personal brand or a business brand? In order to connect with your audience you have to know which kind you are.



People follow people - personal brand is going to be so much bigger than the business one. 

Building a personal brand will give you much more reach.


Set clear pillars (categories to represent you - a mom, a dancer, fun - your different roles).

Have content categories.


Who is your key audience? (your target market). Know who you are talking to - most important thing in the business. If you know who your audience is, it is going to be so much easier to create value for them. 


As soon as you have a very clear brand, the right community is going to come together.


Once you have clarity about your audience - start creating value for them.

Create authentic content that is completely in alignment with you! People will show up for the real you.


Best way to create a community is to get clear who you are and start creating valuable content.


Your X-Factor - what's your magic? Why are people following you?


Instagram 101.


Have a very clear profile picture because it's what makes people click first.

You have to make your social media page clickable to your website!


Your highlights - your services and your website.


Instagram is pushing so much audience into their Reels - if you do Reels, you are going to get so much traffic!


Carousell posts are good because it tells Instagram, people like your content.


One minute videos are also great because you can promote from there.


IGTV - longer content. 


If you are a coach - start shooting videos. If you want more clients - people can go to your social media and look at what you are offering…

You just have to get started - your videos are not going to be great at first.


Homework: Practice speaking for 1 minute (practice your pitch). Every day 1 video - you don`t have to even post it. 
To connect with your community, you have to talk to them. Start sharing about you.


IG stories are great because they are bringing your audience on a journey with you.


The more you are authentic with your community, the more you are going to connect with your audience.


If you want to turn your audience into superfans, you have to provide value for them. They have to trust you. 


Create shareable content. This is going to grow your audience. You want content that people want to share.


Make a story and tag someone who has a big audience in it. Collaborate with them. You will get people from their audience and they will get people from you.

Make a conscious effort about your story. 


Hang on to people who are helping you grow.

Make sure to treat these people really well who are sharing your content.


Engage with people. Social media is about socialising with people. 

Ask from people how they are doing. Engage with your community. Then you don't have to sell anything actively.


This is the time to be on social media!


People want to connect.


#1 thing to grow on social media:
remember that you have social media and start using it. 

Get clear who you are and start creating authentic content. Then your community starts to grow.

Practice creating content and posting it.


The reason - to create a community.


Make sure you are using good hashtags - it's a good way for people to find you. 

HTTPS://WWW.ALL-HASHTAG.COM/



Also use GeoTags - so people can know where you are and how to find you.


If you want to connect - send people DM-s. 


Follow positive people.


Create content that resonates with you.


Q/A:
How to create interesting content that creates community?

  • The energy that you have is going to resonate with the audience, who is attracted to the real you.

Who is your ideal audience?

What is their greatest need right now?

How could you help?


What is your end goal? Start with the end in mind.


Even if your business is closed, you have to be active on socials - one day everything is going to reopen again and people are going to remember you.

Now is the time to invest in yourself.

Stay active now! Keep engaging!


Hashtags are important, because it's one of the search tools.


Good: just get your content out.
Better: Get a proper light in front of you (it's not expensive). 


Don`t make the equipment stop you - just start.


Have the camera at the right angle.



How to promote your charity through social media?
-Find people with big reach who are resonating with the cause and can help you spread the word.


7 Day challenge:
Post on social media. Create videos. Start sharing stories. Tag Sonia and she will share it!


Create an account that is about you. People want to see you - the real you! Create an account that is aligned with real you and people are going to show up. Just start and practice and you will get better over time. 


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Monday, March 29, 2021

Day 3 of Quantum Shift Experience 2021 (28th of March)


 My notes from Quantum Shift Day 3


The more important the legacy is for you, the more shallow it becomes. Focus on your vision instead - your vision will create your legacy automatically.

Get your values clear and they will start creating your legacy.


The more faith you have for the future, the more you are willing to let your wants and desires go.

Make sure why you want things - maybe you want to fill your emptiness. It's important to know why you want stuff.


People are looking for proof to emulate you.


Stop asking people to not push your buttons - try to think why are you even getting triggered and try to heal it instead.


People in an emotional state are not really honest and don't want to admit what the real problem is.
Don't argue with a woman. Women often talk about their problems to release stress. Tell her: “Tell me more!”

Talking for men raises stress.

A woman actually wants you to stand your ground.


Are we expressing emotion or are we using them?
Crying is good when you do it for cleansing not for manipulation.


Allow your feelings to come up.


If you keep running away from certain people, they keep coming up in another form in another place until you transmute them (learn the lesson and release the emotion).


Emotional needs


Emotions are internal reward/punishment systems to guide you. They are here to help you survive.


When we used to live in nature, our emotional compass used to help us survive - nowadays it doesn't apply anymore for the current environment (evolution gap).


When we fail to satisfy our emotional needs our body starts to worry about our safety and we turn anxious.


Universe is always training you to become stronger for the things that are coming next.


We do anything we can to fulfill these needs. When our needs start running empty, we often start to fulfill them in dysfunctional ways.

Our emotional needs are:

Certainty (safety) - if we don't have enough certainty, we become more stressful. Find positive ways to create certainty in your life.
Adventure (drama) - when we don`t get enough change, we start creating it ourselves.

Connection - Social bond. When we don't find functional ways to meet our need for connection, we start doing it in dysfunctional ways. Our ancestors could only do it in positive ways. If you don't meet the need, your body will take over to meet the need and not often in functional ways.

Social Significance - 



News try to create certainty for you and then will create uncertainty to make you addicted.


You want to become a conscious hedonist - somebody who is chasing pleasure in a conscious way. Take a look at your emotional needs and fulfill them in positive ways.

  1. Weigh up the consequences of your decisions in the future.

  2. Do pleasure fasting from time to time. Delay of gratification is the most powerful skill you could have. People who can delay gratification are more successful in the future.

  3. Seek pleasure in that which is not supposed to be pleasurable (change the meaning). Find a way to enjoy things that are not really enjoyable. If you allow yourself to enjoy negative emotions and let it all out, you stop avoiding these negative emotions and escaping from them.



Our reward system is not a match for our environment.


Life purpose: our purpose is different from our missions.

Your purpose in life is to enjoy it as much as you can (appreciating and accepting everything that is how it is).

Consider fulfilling your emotional needs in ways that are bringing you closer also to your mission.


If any of these needs become below 60%, your body will kick in of urgency.


Think of how you can meet those needs in positive ways.

Emotional needs are survival needs.


Certainty
Some ideas how to create certainty in positive ways: creating positive habits, setting goals for the future, planning (time), keeping my word, meditating, keeping my job, focusing on the positive, avoiding news, avoiding alcohol and drugs, breathing exercises, yoga, reading, self development, walking in nature, exercising, eating healthy, keeping my money stuff in order, investing, keeping good relationships, dreaming, getting a good rest, keeping myself healthy, fulfilling my needs, letting go of old grudges, cleaning, insurance, health checks, relieving stress, progress, money reserve, morning and evening routines, setting attentions, quality time with girlfriend, keeping a phone charged, keeping a fuel tank filled, build self esteem, learning new things, trust, keep house in order, water in containers, electricity generator, extra batteries, sanitisers, masks, having medications nearby, fire extinguishers.


The lower we get on the levels, the more we get urgency and the more we lose consciousness. If you feel anxiety - try to meet your needs. Put some of these things in the calendar. Even better if you can automate it (saving money).
Look at your list and figure out what I should be doing on a regular basis, what do I need to automate and what should I do only once (insurance).
Whenever you feel uncertainty go and do one of those things.

Variety/Drama

Some ideas:
reading interesting books, watching interesting Youtube videos, watching educational movies, visiting nearby towns, discovering new places in nature, going on adventures, taking new courses, meeting new people,    watching comedy movies, learning something new, trying new hobbies, traveling, socialising with young people, doing random things, surprises, making your menu very versatile. 

Connection
Some ideas to create connection in positive ways:
physical touch, looking deep in the eyes, listening to other person's heart, spending time together, breathing exercises (connection with self), meditation, looking yourself in the mirror, massage, going to nature, taking time for yourself, journaling, yoga, Shindo, saying nice things to yourself, being kind to yourself, listening carefully, taking care of your appearance, deep conversations, hugging, helping, playing with a pet, playing with kids.

Significance

Some ideas to create significance in positive ways: helping others, contributing, being a volunteer, developing yourself, becoming an expert in some field, sharing your knowledge, overcoming your fears, creating an accomplishments list and reading it, facing problems and solving them, keeping your promises to yourself, living according your values,  praising yourself, accepting yourself and others, setting healthy boundaries, standing up for yourself, being kind towards yourself, showing interest for others, communicating with others in their primary love language, using often other people`s names.


Key stone behaviour - one behaviour that fulfills multiple needs in positive ways. These are most important - put them in your life plan.


Most of the time we are running on autopilot.


Pick a goal you`re trying to attract in your life:
Financial freedom, working in the self development field.

Givers gain.
If you share your goals, you never know who can help you. Share with the right people.

Sometimes the wanting is better than having it.

Make it really real in your imagination.
A moment in time regarding that goal when you feel it's real.
Visualise it from time to time and make it totally real for you.


Inertia.

What is the first and simplest step you could take to move closer to your goal

Create actions steps to create inertia.

But don`t do it all right away! Take a light quick simple step on Monday and then stop. Then on Tuesday and so on… Spread those things out to create a new identity for yourself.
If you want to write a book, do a little bit every day.

Exercise: create a momentum chain, spread it through the week and put it in your calendar. Create the momentum chain and start following it.

“If you take one step towards me, I'll take two steps torwards you.” God (Universe)



If you have a problem, imagine that you`re asking somebody you admire (Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Richard Branson etc).

You have the capacity to “remember” the future - imagine the actions you did that got you that result.

Prove to the crew that the captain is in charge.


It's not about the event that happened, it's about the meaning you create about that event.


Beliefs and automatic behaviours


Beliefs filter reality.
We delete and distort and generalise all the time. When you have an intense emotional response to something, it creates a memory.

What we believe about the world, tends to create our experience.

Your beliefs will impact the way you see the world. They also impact the way you see yourself (your identity).

How to identify limiting beliefs?
Ask yourself:
“How would your life be if things were different?”
“Which things need to be different?”


Sometimes you just need to shine a light on a limiting belief and it will go immediately.

Easy high school, difficult life.

In order to be emotionally hurt you have to believe that others can hurt you.


Belief is like a virus that eats evidence and finally becomes a conviction.

Every belief has an anti-belief.


Play this game: look for the evidence for the opposite.

Start doubting this limiting belief a little bit.


Do you have evidence that your belief is at times flawed?

Do you have some anti-evidence for that belief?

If you keep feeding the empowering belief, soon it will become stronger than the limiting one.


One of the most powerful things you can do to improve your existence is to surround yourself with the right people.

Who can you spend time with that would make your life better? 

People on the world class level in different fields every month.



Automatic behaviours.


Most of our behaviour is automatic because to be conscious all the time would be very tiring.


One shortcut is to align your conscious with your subconscious - to do things that your higher self actually wants you to do (superconsciousness).


To deprogram an automatic behaviour:


1. Think of the consequences if you continue with that behaviour - what's the worst case scenario? - you will start to see the long term consequences.

2. How could your life improve, if you let that go of that behaviour?

3.What are the strategies for me to change that behaviour?

It's not the thing you don't want to do - you just don't want to start.
Don`t stop your procrastination - choose on what you are going to procrastinate.



How to program a new habit?


  1. Ask yourself: “What kind of new habit would I like to have?”

  2. Why do you want this new habit? If you have an emotional “Why?” it will start to pull you towards your goal. A clear “Why?” will give you 80% of the results.

  3. If you do something 21 days in a row, it will change your neural pathways and this behaviour will become automatic.
    In the beginning it will acquire huge amounts of willpower though. It will be easier, if you put reminders in your phone to do them.

  4. Create a plan and begin with very small steps!

  5. Measure your results and celebrate every time you do this new behaviour!




It was an awesome event full of great knowledge and meeting amazing people.

I´m also in a similar community called Better You Academy, where there are world class speakers every month and a great group of supportive likeminded people who like to develop themselves.

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