There is more to life than just the world that your 5 senses tell you about.

Your thoughts and emotions are as important as anything you see outside of yourself. In fact they are more important because they can effectively stop you from perceiving the world. In order to gain control of your life and direct it to your will you must explore how thoughts and emotions effect your ability to perceive the world. You must explore your inner world.

Let me show you the best way to perceive the world.

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Positive thinking is not the answer to lifes problems.

It is like battling the mind with the mind. It cannot fundamentally change itself, only move things around.

With effort we can manage to overpower our negative thoughts for awhile. But eventually new situations will come up, things bad enough that all those negative elements will come flooding forth again.

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Changing your life is hard work. There is no denying that it takes constant effort.

Last time I wrote that life is simple and that the process for changing your life is simple. It is. Observe, Discover, Free Yourself. I also hinted that in order to do this a lot of hard work is required and that is what I want to talk about here.

Why is Change Hard

Most of us live unconsciously. We let the thoughts and feelings inside us guide our every action and live our life.

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Life is Simple.

Or maybe I should rephrase that to say that peace and happiness in life is simple to achieve… always.

After reading that you will be roughly one of two types of people.

Type 1: ‘Huh? What is this guy on about! If life was simple I wouldn’t have to worry about anything, he must be tripping on something. I have bills to pay, family to support, work to do. Clearly he doesn’t understand my job, it is very complicated and requires a huge amount of my time. This then makes my wife irritated which just skyrockets the complexity of my life. There is no way I could be peaceful dealing with all these responsibilities let alone managing my wife and kids!’

Type 2: Nods and maybe even smiles. They already know what I’m talking about.

So let me explain for all the type 1 people, type 2 people can read on if they want to keep smiling.

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It is common to hear the phrase ‘Find a job you love’ alongside thousands of people saying that they hate their job or that their job is boring.

The truth is that you never have to hate your job and you never have to be bored.

I’m going to tell you my story of when I was a teenager working in a large toy retail store. I went from hating my job to being happy at work.

Being bored is a state of mind as is hating your job, it is a certain grouping of thoughts and emotions. But on to my story.

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It is time to tackle shyness from a warrior’s perspective, on the front line. Shyness is something that effects everyone. Really it is just a particular manifestation of fear. Here I will show you how to go about combating it.

Tina Su wrote about 20 Ways to Attack Shyness and covered a bunch of methods quite elegantly. However the methods listed mix together the techniques of the warrior, the tactics of the captain and the strategies of the general. Presented with these methods people can get confused with which level to apply them in their lives. Higher level methods are much less effective without the solid foundations of fine grained methods.

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He excitedly unfurled the scroll, surprised to see the seal of his teacher. It had been one month since he had stopped seeing his teacher. He missed him dearly, but visiting had always been so painful. He could never bring himself to ask a question because everyone else seemed so much smarter and more powerful. It always felt like he was insignificant, it would be silly for him to believe he had a question of value.

“Come see me, I have a gift for you”

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When it comes to self development, the only path to success is through constant effort.

Recently Paul Piotrowski wrote about the secret of kaizen on his blog which focused on the example of how he improves his blog. Here I want to talk about kaizen in relation to self development and why I think it is the fundamental practice.

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Fear is your hands in your pockets and your head looking at the ground.

Fear is the blinds you cover your windows with.

Fear is the friends you put between yourself and others.

Fear is the glass prison holding everything you want to say but cant.

Fear is what stops you from living the life you want to live.

Fear not only hides you from others but also hides you from yourself. Fear is the ultimate obstacle to discovering who you are and what you are all about. Really it is the obstacle that stops you from achieving the constant happiness that is possible when you come to embrace yourself.

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We are talking about seriously changing your life by changing your posture.

Does it sound like a task to trivial to have much effect? Well I tell you that you are wrong. The greatest thing is that working on your posture is really easy, yet you gain amazing benefits.

Changing your posture to a more ‘correct’ upright one has the following effects:

• Better health
• Increased perceived confidence
• Better ability to break habits
• Increased ability to overcome fear
• Actual self-confidence

How could this be the case? Let me explain.

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