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		<title>Our Life Becomes What We Think About</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What We Think About Most, Creates Our Life When it comes to intentionally creating a happy, successful life, it&#8217;s so important to learn from smart, positive people who are living (or have lived) that life themselves. I came across this 1950 recording made by Earl Nightingale, often considered the pioneer of the personal improvement movement. [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When it comes to intentionally creating a happy, successful life, it&#8217;s so important to learn from smart, positive people who are living (or have lived) that life themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I came across this 1950 recording made by Earl Nightingale, often considered the pioneer of the personal improvement movement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He speaks in clear, engaging and intelligent detail of both his grounded definition of what success is and how to bring it to our lives.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I hope you find his insights truly valuable.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let me know what you think at: AskUs@ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving.com</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A Great Life Requires Intentional Habits &#160; It&#8217;s not enough to just want a great life.  It&#8217;s a decision to focus what we do each day on building the experience of life we want. The issue is&#8230;..we all are designed to create habits. Some are very helpful. And some&#8230; they aren&#8217;t necessarily working for us. [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>A Great Life Requires </strong></span></h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>Intentional Habits</strong></span></h1>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s not enough to just want a great life. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s a decision to focus what we do each day on building the experience of life we want.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The issue is&#8230;..we all are designed to create habits. </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some are very helpful. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And some&#8230; they aren&#8217;t necessarily working <em>for</em> us.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(Some can downright mess us up, right?) </span></p>
<h2>But We Get To Fix That</h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of the most important Tools to add to your <strong>Intentional Living Toolbox</strong> is the power to intentionally create new habits that drive your unconscious <em>actions</em> towards the experience of life you want.</span></p>
<h3>Enter B.J. Fogg</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Stanford Professor, Behavioral Scientist and Author, <strong>B. J. Fogg,</strong> has spent years working to understand how we can intentionally create new habits that truly help us change our lives for the better.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Fogg&#8217;s methods are deceivingly simple.</strong> They remove &#8220;will power&#8221; from the process, and make installing new habits easy, based upon a cornerstone of Tiny.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Often that can mean really tiny, so we start embedding the new behavior in a very small, bit sized way, steering clear of anxiety and self-doubt. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I&#8217;ve found his work so powerful I&#8217;ve incorporated his methods into <a href="https://rbf8zmpt.pages.infusionsoft.net/">The Power Of Intentional Living Membership</a> journey. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His techniques give us a very adaptable, powerful way to assure new life choices turn into a lasting reality change. Ie. truly S<em>tick</em>. </span></p>
<h3>Get An Edge On Changing Life For The Better</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you&#8217;d like to get a jump start on one of the powerful tools you&#8217;ll learn within the TPIL <a href="https://rbf8zmpt.pages.infusionsoft.net/">Membership</a>, I have a link to his book below.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s offered in whatever way you soak up knowledge best:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Physical print, digital (kindle) or the Audible version (which BJ Fogg reads and adds additional background not found in the print additions). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Just choose the one that fits you best and I bet you&#8217;ll find this journey very worthwhile.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Enjoy this truly breakthrough method, based upon years of solid behavioral research, and a lot of real life testing and refinement. (thanks to over 40,000 people so far!)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Start having fun intentionally adding one consistent, positive daily experience into your life!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One that will make your life, your business or your relationships work better and better every day. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Because You were born to have a Vibrant, Connected, Happy life.</strong> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(Really!)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Isn&#8217;t it time to take charge of the internal software</strong> and start telling it to create the experience of life you&#8217;ve chosen, instead of the one being randomly dished out when you don&#8217;t?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You can check out B.J. Foggs wonderful book &#8220;Tiny Habits&#8221; below.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PS: It would be awesome to hear about your experiences when you put what you&#8217;ve learned in play in your life. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Please let me know at: AskUs@ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving.com or on our Facebook Page: ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul A. Good MM, MEd</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Founder</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">AskUs@ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving.com<br />
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		<title>Launch Your Own Appreciation Tour!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have.” Anonymous When you and I are out there capturing our little slices of life, it&#8217;s easy for us to forget how much fun we have had. That&#8217;s why we make such an effort to bring home a special object, or take photos [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">“Never let the things you want,<br />
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">make you forget the things you have.”<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Anonymous</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">When you and I are out there capturing our little slices of life, it&#8217;s easy for us to forget how much fun we have had.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s why we make such an effort to bring home a special object, or take photos that we can put around our home so the memory doesn&#8217;t fade away.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But one of our natural tools is our ability to tune out unchanged things around us.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Our mind does this to keep it&#8217;s energy directed toward where the &#8220;priorities&#8221; are, according to our circumstances and our sense of urgency.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Like a camera that can make the focal point sharp and the background blurred, that&#8217;s what our mind does when it allocates attention energy within our system.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The positive result is we can usually power through working on what is new or critical with enough energy to get the task done.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The consequence is that with little energy focused on those &#8220;blurred&#8221; parts of life, we can easily lose appreciation for the untapped value they can provide us in daily life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Bringing The Blurred To Focus</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Since we can consciously refocus where we want our attention to be, we can also quickly re-energize any aspect of our experience that has been sub-consciously dimmed.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And that means we can put fun and excitement back into our lives on demand, immediately.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And here&#8217;s just one silly, fun and easy way to do it!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Create Your Own &#8220;Appreciation Tour&#8221;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s One Quick Example:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Many of us have pictures, art, plants and other decorations around our homes that we enthusiastically acquired at different times in our personal evolution.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But if you&#8217;re like me, over time we get focused on the immediate and these objects become part of the &#8220;blur zone&#8221; we no longer see.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And yet, every one of these items is infused with a story waiting to be re-told, re-experienced and re-appreciated.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s why we brought them into our experience of Home.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s time to unlock those gifts!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Are You Ready To Have Some No Cost Fun?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ok! In the next week or so, try this:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you live with others, (kids, family, etc.) tell them you&#8217;re going to do something special on &#8230;&#8230;night and you&#8217;d like them to be there for your &#8220;Appreciation Tour.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you have a close friend you like to share things with, invite them over to your &#8220;Appreciation Tour&#8221; for a drink and snacks.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Or,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you just need a boost, do this solo. It will still be fun!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>The Rigorous Three Step Process</strong> (only kidding about the rigorous part.)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>1.) Pick a day and time,</strong> put it in your calendar, so the time is secured.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You could do this as a fifteen minute kick off to an evening of fun or a theme for the evening.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Whatever works to intentionally make this fun happen.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>2.) Set The Stage.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s the great part. It&#8217;s likely you already have everything you need, except maybe drinks and snacks.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>3.)</strong> With those handled, here&#8217;s all you do during &#8220;The Appreciation Tour&#8221;:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">Grab a glass of your favorite beverage, (wine, beer, sparkling cider&#8230;) to connect a celebration mood to what you&#8217;re about to do.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If you can, put the beverage in a fancy or fun glass, because this is a special occasion. You could even dress up, or throw on some jewelry, or your best Tuxedo T-shirt, to really raise the fun level. Go on, cut loose and have fun with this! Make it a hoot.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Now that you&#8217;re ready,</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong>The Appreciation Tour Begins!</strong></li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Start in an area of your home that has just a few Memory pieces in it. (avoiding choice overwhelm).</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Now walk up to the first item you see, take a sip, and remember the story of how that item came into your life. If you&#8217;re alone, do this silently or out loud, &#8217;cause hey, it&#8217;s your memory, right?</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If you&#8217;re with a partner, family, kids, girlfriend or boyfriend, tell them what you remember most from your perspective, about the life experience that item is connected to.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If several of you were there together when you acquired it, each can share the memory they associate with that trip or experience.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Then move on to the next item that has faded into the blur, sipping and sharing, and unlocking the memories contained in each.</li>
</ul>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to do this for more than fifteen minutes or so.</p>
<p>It could be a fun kick off to doing other things, or a theme for an evening with good friends.</p>
<p>Whatever fits.</p>
<p>But in just that very short time, you&#8217;ll instantly re-focus your mind and heart on the fun, cool experiences of your life.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll reconnect with the experience of who you are and the appreciation you have for the other people and places you&#8217;ve experienced in your life so far.</p>
<p>Who knows, you might just use your little &#8220;Appreciation Tour&#8221; to inspire your next great experience and adventure!</p>
<p>Give this simple tour a try and see how quickly you bring a smile to your face and  a genuine feeling of Appreciation to your heart.</p>
<p>All in the comfort of your own home.</p>
<p>Never stop moving forward.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Paul</p>
<p>Paul A. Good MM, MEd<br />
Founder<br />
AskUs@ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving.com</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Our Reaction To Life, Is Our Life&#8221;* It&#8217;s a mystery why we all grow up with the myth that things happen to us. It creates so much personal hardship. We learn to think &#8220;Because of this &#8230;., Therefore I&#8217;m &#8230;.&#8221; is how our life works. And that because something created an influence, we are simply [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><center><span style="font-size: 24pt;">&#8220;Our Reaction To Life, <em>Is</em> Our Life&#8221;<span style="font-size: 14pt;">*</span></span></center></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href='https://vimeo.com/368900474' class='big-button bigblue' target="_blank">Video Version</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>It&#8217;s a mystery why we all grow up with the myth that things happen <i>to us.</i></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It creates so much personal hardship.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We learn to think &#8220;Because of this &#8230;., Therefore I&#8217;m &#8230;.&#8221; is how our life works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And that because something created an influence, we are simply the helpless victim of it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No choice. That&#8217;s just the way it works&#8230;.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Not <em>unless we say so.</em></span></strong></p>
<h3><strong>The Missing Piece</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You and I, as human beings, are <i>story making machines</i>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And when we recognize that, we get the power to decide what story we make up, based on how it serves our needs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We&#8217;re not talking about ignoring the Facts of a situation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But what happens next is about how we interpret them.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Machine That Never Sleeps</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our sub-conscious mind is the machine part of us that never sleeps.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And that&#8217;s a good thing, since it runs all our internal systems every moment of the day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A Vacation for the sub-conscious, becomes a permanent vacation for us.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But as an organic machine, it runs programs, millions of them, constantly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It tells our cells what to do, directs what gets healed and what doesn&#8217;t, tells us what is dangerous and what is fun&#8230;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And all of it is constantly influenced by what it has been taught as being true.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Sponge Phase</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From day one in our life, to about five years old or so, the sub-conscious mind is in massive data collection mode.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like a sponge, it just soaks up input on everything it experiences though all of it&#8217;s senses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It doesn&#8217;t have any idea what is good or bad, helpful or harmful, it just collects everything it can so when the conscious part of the brain begins to kick in, it has data to work with.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Conscious Mind Comes On Line</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you&#8217;re a parent, you probably noticed that somewhere around five years old your children showed signs of being more self-aware.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How they looked started to become important. What other people thought about them began to matter much more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In my own life, I had a nephew and niece who lived in a rural area. For the first four plus years their most comfortable state was naked, if it were at all warm enough. Out in their secluded yard, in the house, playing, dancing, whatever they were doing, that was most comfortable for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One day, when my nephew was about five, he and I went to a hidden stream that had places where the water created still pools in the rocks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was a popular place to swim and have fun with the neighbors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because he and his sister had learned that the general public was not as enlightened about the freedom of being in their natural state, he brought his bathing suit for the swim.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Normally he would just walk over to a flat area, drop his pants, put on his suit and head for the watering hole.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But this time he turned to me and said &#8220;Uncle Paul, will you hold up a towel so I can change?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I smiled, and felt very honored that he trusted me to help him adjust to this new experience of himself.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Control The Tool, Control The Results</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Once the conscious mind comes online, for the first time we get to choose how we interpret what we experience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We wrestle with how the data that showed up in our reference library should be pieced together and what it means to us.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But only rarely, did anyone coach us that in every situation, there are: The Facts of what has happened, and The Story we make up about it.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>We Get To Write The Story</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here&#8217;s an easy example.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You&#8217;re on the freeway minding your own business when a speeding car suddenly cuts across in front of you, and heads off down the road.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Immediately your sub-conscious mind goes into <em>danger alert </em>mode!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fear leaps into your system, likely followed by anger for &#8220;that &#8230; guy&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Your likely first thought?&#8230;You want to show them how wrong they are for endangering you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And you want to teach them that lesson <em>right now.</em></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>You Have A Choice To Make</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What experience of life do you want right now?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Facts:</strong> A vehicle cut in front of you. You were not harmed. They are gone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Story You Choose To Make Up About It:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Story A.)</strong> One that accelerates the anger response your Sub-conscious just automatically dished out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Likely results:</strong> More anger eats you up, stressing your system, stealing your happiness. You create additional danger for yourself and everyone else on the road by chasing him and attempting to confront him. Since the other driver is likely in a hyper state, based upon his driving, the odds of anything but a much worse situation occurring are very high.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Or</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Story B.)</strong> You take a deep breath to release the adrenaline rush, hope the person isn&#8217;t rushing to the aid of a loved one, and shift your thoughts to the cool things you&#8217;re going to do later today when you arrive at your destination.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Likely Results:</strong> Life Continues To Be Enjoyable (because you said so).</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Learn To Live Intentionally</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When you live intentionally, you decide what story to make up about the Facts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because<em> you</em> decide if your life will be happy or stressed. <strong>Only you.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>You understand that life doesn&#8217;t happen <i>to you</i>. It happens</strong> <em><strong>through you.</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You get to choose the interpretation that best improves your experience of life at every moment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We were given a <em>Conscious</em> mind to allow us to oversee the reactionary, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know right from wrong,&#8221; Sub-conscious mind <strong>because it doesn&#8217;t know any better.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With every situation that you practice separating the <strong>Facts</strong> and then <strong>Choose The Story</strong> that improves your life, the faster you re-connect to the experience of life you have chosen to live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because this is your life, nobody else&#8217;s.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>And your greatest gift, is your ability to <em>consciously decide</em> how your life will go everyday.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Uncover and use the gifts you were given to help you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Used well, you&#8217;ll truly build a life you love being a part of, no matter what your instant reaction throws at you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Take charge of your machine,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and Never stop moving forward.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul A. Good MM, MEd</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Founder/President</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Power Of Intentional Living</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">AskUs@ThePowerOfIntentionalLiving.com</span></p>
<p>* Paul A. Good</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Built into us is a dominant way we live our life&#8230; And We Missed The Memo! Know Yourself A Little Better Author Gretchen Rubin, well known for her upbeat, deep dive into &#8220;Happiness&#8221; in her book &#8220;The Happiness Project,&#8221; began to recognize an interesting pattern emerging in her research in the way each of us [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;">Built into us is a dominant way we live our life&#8230;</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">And We Missed The Memo!</h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Know Yourself A Little Better</strong><br />
<a href='https://quiz.gretchenrubin.com/' class='small-button smallblue' target="_blank">Take The Four Tendencies Quiz</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Author Gretchen Rubin, well known for her upbeat, deep dive into &#8220;Happiness&#8221; in her book &#8220;The Happiness Project,&#8221; began to recognize an interesting pattern emerging in her research in the way each of us responds to life.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This triggered her next dive into our human <em>tendencies</em> and how some people seem to leverage them in very effective ways and other don&#8217;t.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Discovering, or should I say, recognizing this embedded trait in my own life was both an &#8220;Ouch!&#8221; and a &#8220;Wow, I can stop waisting time beating myself up,&#8221; kind of experience.</span></strong></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Removing Roadblocks</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I recognized how my tendency was directing my life, sometimes in ways that were not helping me, I suddenly realized <strong>I could now use that understanding to help me remove road blocks,</strong> instead of creating them. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And that was very cool.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s also why this insightful tool is one of many tools you get within The Power Of Intentional Living ILM paid membership program. There you begin by actually building your own personal &#8220;Owner&#8217;s Manual&#8221; to better guide your life decisions. </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The more you uncover and use the unique c tools you&#8217;ve already been given to create the experience of life you want, the more fulfilled and successful your life becomes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Her book has a lot of great examples of how each of the four tendencies play out in real life. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524760919/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1524760919&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thepowofint04-20&amp;linkId=cd42ca307b8acb43d37c8fe2d2038651%22%3EThe%20Four%20Tendencies:%20The%20Indispensable%20Personality%20Profiles%20That%20Reveal%20How%20to%20Make%20Your%20Life%20Better%20(and%20Other%20People%27s%20Lives%20Better,%20Too)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepowofint04-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1524760919%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;">So don&#8217;t miss out on the valuable wisdom Rubin skillfully details in her book.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">But wouldn&#8217;t it also be cool to know which of the four tendencies are most core to you, so you could immediately start projects using it to make work and life easier?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://quiz.gretchenrubin.com/">Take The Four Tendencies Quiz</a> and quickly find out!</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(I laughed when it nailed it for me!)</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Plus, her research based assessment tool is <strong>Free!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Have fun learning more about how you were built&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and start using it to help you create</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Experience Of Life Y<em>ou Love!</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Never stop moving forward.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524760919/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1524760919&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thepowofint04-20&amp;linkId=cd42ca307b8acb43d37c8fe2d2038651&quot;&gt;The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepowofint04-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1524760919&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;">The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin</a><br />
The Book</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524760919/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1524760919&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thepowofint04-20&amp;linkId=cd42ca307b8acb43d37c8fe2d2038651&quot;&gt;The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepowofint04-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1524760919&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-2855" src="http://www.thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Four-Tendencies-Gretchen-Rubin-Cover-Image.jpg" alt="" width="254" height="254" srcset="https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Four-Tendencies-Gretchen-Rubin-Cover-Image.jpg 342w, https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Four-Tendencies-Gretchen-Rubin-Cover-Image-150x150.jpg 150w, https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-Four-Tendencies-Gretchen-Rubin-Cover-Image-300x300.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px" /></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2018 18:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We all want the secret to a happy life. Here&#8217;s two peoples journey to help us find some answers. &#160; Uncovering The Mysterious &#8220;Ikigai&#8221; If you listened to the TED Talk I posted on &#8220;Ikigai&#8221; by Dan Buettner,  you learned about his search for why some people live long, happy, highly active lives well into their [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;">We all want the secret to a happy life.</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Here&#8217;s two peoples journey to help us find some answers.</h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Uncovering The Mysterious &#8220;Ikigai&#8221;</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you listened to the TED Talk I posted on &#8220;Ikigai&#8221; by Dan Buettner,  you learned about his search for why some people live long, happy, highly active lives well into their 100 th birthdays or longer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That&#8217;s why as a part of the <em>Living Intentionally</em> membership, you uncover the value you bring to each of it&#8217;s four elements, and use that knowledge to clarify and inspire a sense of purpose, or reason for being, in your daily life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Because when we learn to intentionally create a life designed around using and contributing our natural strengths and purpose in the world, life wherever we live, becomes more energized, happier and more fulfilled, right where we are.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We also positively change the experience of everyone around us too.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The authors, Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles, set off on a journey to talk with, experience and record every clue they could find about this mysterious philosophy called &#8220;Ikigai.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As the author&#8217;s tell you, &#8220;In Japanese  &#8220;ikigai&#8221; is written by combining the character which means &#8220;life&#8221; with another which means &#8220;to be worthwhile.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This book will take you on their journey to discover what creates a worthwhile life. It might also help you uncover new ideas to put to work in your daily life now.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I hope you enjoy it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Remember to post your thoughts on our Facebook page:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">(The Power Of Intentional Living) and share with us what had meaning to you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s the Amazon link to the book. It&#8217;s available both in print and in Audible version, narrated by Walter Dixon, a very pleasant speaker.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Never stop moving forward.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Cheers,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Paul</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There Will Always Be Things We Must Do, Even When They&#8217;re Not A Natural Fit. The trick is to find an &#8220;Access Point&#8221; to do it anyway. A powerful benefit of being clear on what talents we bring to life, is the ability to use those talents as &#8220;Access Points&#8221; to accomplish things we should [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>There Will Always B</strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>e Things We Must Do, </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Even When They&#8217;re Not A Natural Fit.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><br />
The trick is to find an &#8220;Access Point&#8221; to do it anyway.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href='https://vimeo.com/424160513' class='big-button bigblue' target="_blank">The Video Version</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A powerful benefit of being clear on what talents we bring to life, is the ability to use those talents as &#8220;A<i>ccess Points&#8221;</i> to accomplish things we should do, but don&#8217;t like to.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The personal &#8220;Owner&#8217;s Manual&#8221; you create in <strong><em>The</em> <i>ILM</i></strong> is a powerful tool.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It helps you stay focused on where you&#8217;re likely to find the most fulfillment and add the most value to the world in daily life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Still, we don&#8217;t want to use this knowledge as an excuse to simply not do things we should do, but don&#8217;t </strong><i><strong>naturally</strong></i><strong> like to do. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When we do, we often cheat ourselves of valuable growth and others of significant residual benefits.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Here&#8217;s an example of a creative trick (An Access </strong>Point) I used to <strong>take on a task I had no passion for doing, but turned into something I have fun doing.<br />
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<h2><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><strong>What&#8217;s For Dinner?</strong></span></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My wife always took responsibility for planning and making meals.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But she works a much less flexible schedule than I do.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Even though I was never &#8220;into cooking,&#8221; it suddenly (<strong>finally!</strong>) dawned on me that it was crazy she was coming home from work around dinner time and then taking on making dinner!</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, one night I asked her: &#8220;How about I take over planning and making dinner for us from now on, starting tomorrow?&#8221;</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">After being momentarily stunned that I wanted to take this on, she almost instantly said &#8221; Yes, that would be really great!&#8221;</span></p>
<h2><strong>Enter The Holy Crap</strong> <strong>Moment</strong></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oops&#8230;now I was all in.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I knew what I was doing was the right thing, but how was I going to &#8220;get into&#8221; cooking from now on?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It seemed like a steep climb, so I immediately started looking at how I could leverage my strengths to create a way to <strong>&#8220;get into&#8221; </strong>it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of my strengths is &#8220;transforming something strong into something superb,&#8221;* and I&#8217;m very visually oriented. </span>(*ref. the Strengths assessment tool used within the ILM)</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So I thought, &#8220;What could I do to make creating meals fun for me, if I didn&#8217;t have an interest in making the actual food?&#8221;</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>My solution:</strong> <strong>Make every meal &#8220;</strong><strong><i>look&#8221; </i></strong><strong>beautiful.</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I decided to make the <i>appearance</i> of every plated dish the focus, creating a visual composition for each meal, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">especially as I was learning healthy combinations and how to work with flavors&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And how to <em>not</em> turn fish and chicken into a rubber product!<br />
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<h2><strong>So How&#8217;d It Go?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now, almost two years later, I make our dinners at least five days a week, have removed the pressure of this necessity from my wonderful wife&#8217;s &#8220;To Do&#8221; list, and most importantly, made her feel more appreciated.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Plus, I get to surprise her every evening with a new, visually attractive (and most times good tasting) meal that connects with me creatively.</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I even take on those &#8220;meal in a box&#8221; deliveries once in a while, to help expand my knowledge of spices and combinations, creating new possibilities.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>To paraphrase Thomas Edison: &#8220;The moment you think you&#8217;ve exhausted all the possibilities, you haven&#8217;t.&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><strong>An Easy Method To Change Your Perspective</strong></span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What are things in your life that you should do, but dodge, because you really don&#8217;t want to?</strong></span></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here&#8217;s A Method You Can Use To More Quickly Make A Connection Between Something You &#8220;Should&#8221; do, And Something You Love To Do:</span></strong></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Four Simple Steps:</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>1.)</strong> <strong>Make Three Quick Columns On A Piece Of Paper</strong> (yup, draw two semi-straight lines down the paper to divide it into three sections.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>2.)</strong> <strong>Add These Titles To The Top Of Each Column:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Column #1</strong>: What I Should Do, But Don&#8217;t Want To</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Column #2:</strong> My Most Powerful Strengths</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Column #3:</strong> Ways To Connect Them</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Don&#8217;t Add Anything To The Columns Yet.</strong> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Flip the paper</strong> and make the Column #1 (Should Do) list on the back of the paper so you can just flow them out to see them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Now Pick The One Item That Will Be Easiest For You To Accomplish.</strong> (This is not an Ironman Challenge, it&#8217;s a Get Your Feet Wet and Have Some Fun Exercise to get you familiar with the process. So start with small weights and work up.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>3.)</strong> <strong>In Column #2: List Your Most Powerful Strengths.</strong> (If you&#8217;re in the ILM, use the Strengths section in your &#8220;Personal Owner&#8217;s Manual&#x2122;&#8221; If not (yet), write down what you feel from experience are your most dominant strengths. The talents you seem to use most often <strong>when you&#8217;re doing something you love to do.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>4.) In Column #3, &#8220;blue sky&#8221; fun and/or wacky ways you can link the task in Column #1 to one or more of the Strengths you listed to accomplish the task.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">5). Start doing the task in Column #1 using those strengths!</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That&#8217;s  what I did in my &#8220;Holy Crap&#8221; moment and you can do the same. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And have Fun with it! The more silliness your create as you do it, the better.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The mission is to make that combination uniquely interesting to you. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And now you have another cool Tool in your <strong>&#8220;Intentional Living Tool Box<span style="font-size: 8pt;">&#x2122;</span>.&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">&#8220;Living Intentionally means you&#8217;ve become clear about the experience of life you want, and are actively making it so.&#8221;</span></strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By learning to quickly shift focus from seeing a barrier, to finding an<strong> &#8220;Access Point<span style="font-size: 8pt;">&#x2122;,</span>&#8220;</strong> <i>you</i> intentionally shift your experience from a feeling of Weakness to an <strong>Experience of Control.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And learning to kick that burden to the curb using something already strong within you, gives you more power to live more intentionally.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because A Happy Life Happens Intentionally<span style="font-size: 8pt;">&#x2122; </span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and you get to make it so everyday.</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>PS:</strong> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you&#8217;re not already in <a href="https://rbf8zmpt.pages.infusionsoft.net">The IL M,</a> we open registration just a few times a year.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I Can&#8217;t Wait To Meet You! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers, Paul</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>How To Run 100 Miles What we&#8217;re capable of achieving is powerfully connected to what we believe is possible. This incredible real life video takes you into the lives of two friends, one who has learned anything is possible if you don&#8217;t quit and another who wants to know what that&#8217;s like. A truly inspiring piece on [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">How To Run 100 Miles</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What we&#8217;re capable of achieving is powerfully connected to what we believe is possible.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This incredible real life video takes you into the lives of two friends, one who has learned anything is possible if you don&#8217;t quit and another who wants to know what that&#8217;s like.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">A truly inspiring piece on the power of belief, commitment and friendship.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Never quit going after the experience of life you want.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Cheers,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Paul</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This is Will Bowen&#8217;s wonderful talk on how learning to dissolve complaining from your life, transforms every aspect of your life. You&#8217;ll likely laugh at yourself, as I did. He will open your mind to how his simple method can powerfully create happiness in not only your own life, but in the lives of everyone you [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>This is Will Bowen&#8217;s wonderful talk on how learning to dissolve complaining from your life, transforms every aspect of your life. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>You&#8217;ll likely laugh at yourself, as I did. He will open your mind to how his simple method can powerfully create happiness in not only your own life, but in the lives of everyone you touch each day. </strong></span></p>
<p><center><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><strong><em>Warning:</em> Not Complaining May Induce Happiness</strong></span></center><center><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AYHP0VzYKQU?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><center></center><center><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s not that I have everything that I have, and therefore I don&#8217;t complain. I don&#8217;t complain. That&#8217;s why I have everything I have.&#8221;  Oprah Winfrey</strong></span></center><center>.</center><center></center><center><center><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>It you&#8217;d like to start your complaint free habit today, </strong></span></center><center><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Click The Book.</strong></span></center><center>.</center><center><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Start Changing Your Experience Of Life From This Day Forward&#8230;</strong></span></center></center><center>.</center><center><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0770436390/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0770436390&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thepowofint04-20&amp;linkId=162e6855dd228fd95367f7c3b99fc8d7&quot;&gt;A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepowofint04-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0770436390&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-2526 size-full" src="http://www.thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon.jpg" alt="A Complaint Free World - The Book At Amazon" width="336" height="499" srcset="https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon.jpg 336w, https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon-202x300.jpg 202w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px" /></a></center></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We Have A Choice With The Words We Use, To Create The Life We Live. Choose wisely.&#8221; Will Bowen (Author: A Complaint Free World) A few years ago in a small American town, a movement started that has now spread around the world. The incredible part is that it calls us to give up something that [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>&#8220;We Have A Choice With The Words We Use,</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>To Create The Life We Live. </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Choose wisely.&#8221;</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Will Bowen<br />
(Author: A Complaint Free World)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A few years ago in a small American town, a movement started that has now spread around the world. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The incredible part is that it calls us to give up something that is so normal in our daily lives, that we do it unconsciously.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s woven into the fabric of most conversations we have everyday.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it&#8217;s also an insidious reason why so many of us stay trapped feeling life is not much fun anymore.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Unconscious Art Of Complaining</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You and I know that complaining is not an admiral trait. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But this habit is so embedded into our culture, we almost never consider the personally damaging effect it&#8217;s having on our personal level of happiness, or on everyone experiencing us. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>Hiding In Plain Sight</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I intentionally focused on looking for the positive in life a long time ago for a very practical reason: </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s a catalyst for bringing more positive results into being. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dwelling on the negative interfered with the speed of creating successful results and prevented others from becoming enrolled in the mission to help create that success.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So, naively, I thought I was pretty low on the complaint scale.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But here&#8217;s the insidious part for me. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because I knew how damaging complaining was to others, I didn&#8217;t often complain in public.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But when I was alone with me, myself and I, or worse, sometimes with my amazing wife, an emotionally frustrating moment would come up, and out would come a complaint.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>It&#8217;s Really No Big Deal </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I never really thought it mattered. Everybody does it, and it&#8217;s just a normal part of being human. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In fact, it&#8217;s probably good for me to get that frustration out that way. It makes me feel I&#8217;ve told the universe I&#8217;m upset and I&#8217;m posting my complaint. In fact, I&#8217;m actually helping change the world by letting it know what&#8217;s wrong so somebody else will fix it soon.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>But The Universe Decided To Throw Me A Bone</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I came across Will Bowen&#8217;s book &#8220;A Complaint Free World&#8221; and it sounded like a crazy idea, but interesting.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Since I&#8217;m always on the hunt for proven tools and resources for my readers, the curiosity got me started. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And soon I realized how damaging complaints, sarcasm and gossip were to living an energized, happy and productive life.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The &#8220;experience of life I want and am actively making it so.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Will Bowen And His Radical Idea </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This crazy idea of creating a Complaint Free World, started by Will Bowen, asks you to do something that seems on the surface, relatively easy (or so I thought):</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Remove complaints, sarcasm and gossip from all your conversations for just 21 days. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">If for no other reason but to give yourself a good laugh at yourself, take this on and see how &#8220;easy&#8221; this really is.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Complaining Norm</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When you start to consciously pay attention to how often this triad of downers show up in what you say out loud each day, it will likely stun you. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s just so &#8220;Normal.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In fact, I began to realize that integrating a complaint or sarcasm into what I said, in often subtle ways, happened much more than I ever imagined.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For me anyway, it was a form of personal entertainment. I never thought of it as being a &#8220;complaint&#8221; or paid attention to how I felt immediately after saying it. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it was.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the more I recognized it for what it was, the more I started to notice how I felt after saying it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Passing On The Poison</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What I didn&#8217;t realize, until I began this fun experiment, was the suppressive effect I was experiencing from the underlying frustration created (and perpetuated) behind it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Or that I was actually passing on that frustration to every person I expressed it in front of. And that included my most personal relationship. The one with my wife. Ouch.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Essentially, I was passing on the poison.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>21 Days To An Experience Most Never Know</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So I began the 21 day challenge. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Simply, put the purple band you can get from his website (very inexpensively and embossed with A Complaint Free World.org, or use your own version.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Put it on one wrist to begin. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Anytime you say a complaint, sarcastic remark or gossip, move the band to the other wrist.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Start the 21 day count again. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Magic Of Living A Complaint Free Life</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let me start by saying I&#8217;m still on this journey to 21 days (the time it generally takes to establish a new habit in your subconscious).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the more I experience the lightening effect that happens each time I don&#8217;t energize the triad of downers, the more committed I am to making this my new normal state of being. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the closer I get to making 21 days in this zone, the more excited I am about the experience of the day to come. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s become a game to see where I will catch myself about to&#8230;&#8230; and then treat myself to the experience I get immediately from not going there. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It&#8217;s like an energizing shot of positive I get to self administer. No caffeine required. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>&#8220;People Don&#8217;t Change&#8230;&#8221; </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Maybe, </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But You Change Others Experience Of Life Everyday.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you want proof that what you say has an immediate effect on others, try this experiment:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">First, in your next conversation, begin paying close attention to how people are reacting to you during the moments you&#8217;ve Not added a complaint, criticism, or sarcastic comment to the conversation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then, intentionally make one single complaint, and watch the expression on their face. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You just changed their experience of the moment&#8230; and brought it down a notch.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The power you have to effect others is real. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Use Your Presence To Raise The Bar Of Happiness</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By purging complaints from your experience of life, watch how the people around you enjoy being around you more and like working with you more often.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Underneath the noise around us, we all hope a happy life will come to us. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the world doesn&#8217;t anoint us with happiness, it gives us something much more valuable:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The ability to personally create it and reflect that feeling into the experience of others.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Cue The (wrist) Band. Game On!</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I&#8217;m ask that you to be one of those crazy individuals that takes this on. Why?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because if you remove even a small percentage of complaints from the world, you&#8217;ll be healing the world a little bit more.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What do you have to lose, except the time it takes to move the band from one wrist to another? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And maybe a bit of ego, as you move it more often at first, than you expected.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here&#8217;s the book link to make getting started easy:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Click The Book To Learn More&gt;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0770436390/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0770436390&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thepowofint04-20&amp;linkId=162e6855dd228fd95367f7c3b99fc8d7&quot;&gt;A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepowofint04-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0770436390&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-2526 size-full" src="http://www.thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon.jpg" alt="A Complaint Free World book on Amazon" width="336" height="499" srcset="https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon.jpg 336w, https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon-202x300.jpg 202w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A  natural channel for me is auditory, so I listened to the book through Audible. It also made it so I could jump in and listen on the fly, whenever I had a free moment.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But whatever learning mode best suits you, I highly recommend this incredible journey. Pick your version from the several available when you click the book image.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The founder and author Will Bowen will share his surprising journey, touch your heart with stories of struggle and transformation, and open your thoughts to what has become a beautiful mission with world changing ability.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Never stop moving forward.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cheers,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Click The Book To Learn More</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0770436390/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0770436390&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thepowofint04-20&amp;linkId=162e6855dd228fd95367f7c3b99fc8d7&quot;&gt;A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepowofint04-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0770436390&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; /&gt;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-2526 size-full" src="http://www.thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="499" srcset="https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon.jpg 336w, https://thepowerofintentionalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-Complaint-Free-World-Image-of-book-Amazon-202x300.jpg 202w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px" /></a></p>
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