One of the greatest deterrents to living the confident and
enjoyable life is self centeredness and self absorption.

I’ve felt the effects on this very limited mindset and it’s no
fun at all. None.

When we close down around our SELVES we weaken the power of our
personality, we become more introverted, and we reduce our
dynamism.

We become the greatest thief of our own potential.

This is an INJUSTICE that we must become aware of and stop.

“Mike, how do we do this to ourselves?”

Great question amigo.

I don’t have all the answers, far from it, though let me share
with you this one thing.

Here’s what sometimes happens.

1) Person gets beat up a bit in their past

2) Fear and the need to protect oneself and survive sets in

3) An inward self focus is developed to protect oneself

I want to share with you 2 great quotes from Dr. Normal Vincent
Peale’s classic book ‘Stay Alive All Your Life’.

“One way to have that quality of life (My comments, great,
joyful, and enthusiastic life) is to get outside yourself.
People who live within themselves lose that vital something
which stimulates verve and excitement. As a matter of fact, many
are actually ill as a result of nothing but self centeredness.
When you lose yourself, letting your personality flow outward,
your life takes on creative joy and even health. Half dead,
listless, desultory people everywhere could find the vital life
they really want by the very simple expedient of practicing self
forgetfulness.”

Few pages later.

“Then, when your interest and appreciation are widened to
include the whole great world, life becomes even more
fascinating. Interest, projected outside yourself, has the power
to force even hardship, suffering, and pain into the background.
The more vital your interest, in others and in the world, the
more certainly you can live triumphantly over your own
difficulties.

Here’s one more.

“In exact proportion as you give joy you will receive joy. It is
a law of exact reciprocity. Joy increases as you give it, and
diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. Actually, unless
you give it you will ultimately lose it. In giving it you will
accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.”

Powerful.

Lose yourself to find yourself.

Be someone for somebody.

When we’re preoccupied with SELF, fear, doubt, and worry usually
aren’t far behind it.

Suggestion, read Dr. Peale’s powerful words more than once.

Release the power in your personality.

Find greater meaning in your life.

My friend, YOU, YOU, are ready to live the masterful and
confident life.

Add 1% more of the best -you- into your life today. Just 1%.

Love Ya! You’re The Best!

Your Coach,

Michael

We’re on the march to correct an INJUSTICE, you in?

Good.

Onward.

If you’ve been beaten up a bit in the past and didn’t get the
encouragement you needed, you might be in the hooks of this
‘consequence’.

Many people bring feelings of inferiority from their past
into their present day and it distorts their vision of
what’s possible today.

“Mike, if we bring these feelings of inferiority into our
present, where do we we hold these feelings?”

Great question amigo.

Our lives in many cases are dictated by our SELF IMAGE.

The invisible picture we hold of ourselves in our mind.

What too many of us have done is allow our past beliefs of
inadequacy and inferiority to stay in our present day SELF
IMAGE.

Our self image is the ‘mental box’ that defines the type of
results we achieve.

If we see ourselves as a victim, we bring those results
into our lives.

If we see ourselves making no more than $50k a year, that’s
what we’ll make.

If we see ourselves as a loser, then we’ll find ways to
sabotage ourselves.

When our self image is low, our self esteem is low.

“Mike, what is another effect of a defeating self image?”

Another good question.

When our self image isn’t one of a WINNER, a CHAMPION, we
don’t believe we’re worthy and deserving of the best life
has to offer.

This is a very unfortunate consequence.

I’ve had worthy and deserving challenges as I’m sure you
might have had as well.

Too many people are believing in a DISTORTED image of
themselves.

We are acting FROM a picture that isn’t the greatest you.

What makes Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Oprah, and Michael
Jordan so successful?

Yes they’ve developed the WINNER’S IMAGE.

Yes, YOU can to.

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick said:

“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in
your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture
yourself vividly as defeated and that alone will make
victory impossible. Picture yourself vividly as winning and
that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Great living starts with a picture held in your imagination
of what you would like to do or be.”

It’s much tougher to believe in yourself if you carry
around an inadequate self image of yourself.

Take Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick’s advice.

Spend 60 seconds a day SEEING the best you.

We were created to be winners. Champions. All stars in the
art of living.

Yes, many people have taken in mental mud that’s hurt them.
It’s time to release the old and bring in the new, the greatest YOU.

I believe in your potential. I SEE you becoming a master in
confident living.

I SEE you smiling more, laughing more, loving more.

The GREAT Dr. Norman Vincent Peale said, “If you love life,
life will love you back.”

Live today.

Love Ya! You’re The Best!

Your Coach,

Michael

Worry. Fear. Doubt. Lack of confidence.

This negative mental attitude (NMA) sets its course to
destroy people’s minutes, moments, and more.

This destroyer seeps into our spirit and robs us of the
‘good life’.

Question.

Does the fact that you’re breathing right now really mean
that you’re ALIVE?

Read this again.

Does the fact that you’re breathing right now really mean
that you’re ALIVE?

I can look at many moments of my life and say “I wasn’t
really living.”

I didn’t realize at the time, though I do now, that many
people don’t really enjoy life.

Many people don’t know ‘how’ to enjoy life.

Many people love the ‘victim feeling’ of the past, or live
in the future. Few live in the now. Few enjoy the moment.

There really is an ‘art’ to living the confident and
enjoyable life.

Too many people have been brought up in a culture of fear
and this mental mud has beaten down their spirit.

Soaking in fear, soaking in past negative programming leads
to feelings of inadequacy and feeling inferior.

The fear dominated mindset rarely experiences the power of
enthusiasm.

Are you interested in staying alive all your life?

Here’s a powerful quote from the author Jonathan Swift.

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Read it again.

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Most people don’t realize how powerful their past plays in
their current thinking and actions.

Everyone’s been hurt. Forgive the people in your past. Live
your life right now.

The greatest threat to confident living is SELF
CENTEREDNESS and SELF ABSORPTION.

The preoccupation with self is the guarantee of
unhappiness.

Lose yourself in others to find yourself.

Then you’ll experience real happiness.

The mass of people live lives of quiet desperation because
they are SELFISH.

The inward focus guarantees despair.

Let go. Take your focus off yourself.

Make somebody else happy.

Live.

It has been said, “All people die, only some live.”

The best way to leave the challenges in your past is to get
the focus off yourself.

Volunteer. Help someone. Teach something. Donate money. Time.

This message has been taught for thousands of years. Use it.

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Love Ya! You’re The Best!

Your Coach,

Michael