Wellbeing, Mind power and creating million dollars in 100 days

What stops us from achieving?

2011-05-04T03:07:00.000-07:00

What stops us from achieving?

Why do some people achieve great things when others struggle? Why do some people manage to get what they want in life and others don’t? There can be many different reasons, but what shapes us the most as adults is what happened to us as children. In the early years of our lives we see the world around us, we see how people treat us and how they treat one another and we make decisions which we might later forget but which stay with us for most of our lives. Just imagine a child being told that he or she is useless and stupid over and over again, what do you think will happen in this child’s adulthood? The chances are the child will grow into a not confident person and will have all sorts of emotional issues like struggling with their self-esteem and confidence but that’s not to say that this person will not be successful in life. The person might have decided as a child that he or she is not stupid and will spend the rest of they lives proving to the world that that’s the case and achieving great things in life without ever finding happiness or understanding the reason behind their drive.

A question that comes to mind is: what is achievement, and how do we measure it? Again it would be different for everyone. My idea of achievement is doing something we think we can not do, or we think it would be too hard. Achievement could be overcoming our fears, being able to stand up for ourselves or going away on holiday, moving to a new house, new city or even a new country.

What we tend to do in life is create a place where we feel safe and comfortable, even if it is not a comfortable place to be and we feel bad about where we are. If we take for example moving to a new city, we might fear being away from our family or not being able to meet new friends or not being able to find a new job. There are all the different factors which might stop us for moving. In this instance we would have to overcome our fears and make a decision that we are moving. The decision making part is the most important one! We should concentrate on moving and not put our energy into the worries we have. We will then move, find new friends, find work and maybe even be closer to the family we had few blocks away but never saw them because we never had the time. We might now make the effort to go and see them because they are living in a different city.

The biggest factors which play a big role in stopping us from achieving our goals are;

- Getting out of our comfort zone,

- Lack of decision – you might have heard the story about two people one of them says “One day I will travel the world” and the other says “ Tomorrow I am starting a walk around the world” who do you think is more likely to achieve their goal?

- Fear of failure (which makes us stay in our comfort zone)

In order to achieve what we want in life we need to make a decision as to what we want, take the risk in getting out of our comfort zone (don’t be scared to be afraid), and don’t be afraid of failure.

Sometimes in life we have to make a right decision when there is time to make a decision but later we might have to reconsider it and make the decision right if the decision we made is no longer working for us.

Wealth and happiness.

2011-04-25T18:33:00.000-07:00

Time is going so fast. I have been doing quite a bit of research on all the different ways of making money and creating wealth. And there are many different ways to become rich and wealthy. What I already know from the past, and I am just reaffirming now, is that you cannot get rich from working in a job and saving. Like someone told me a long time ago, a successful small business is much better than a lot of work for a boss.

Most of us go to school study hard and get a job. Then we get stuck making money to pay our taxes and making money for other people. Unfortunately I have been involved in some work for the government and I have seen what happens to our tax money. I am very sad to say that if any of us had to run our households the way the government runs the budget we would be very very broke. If I could only have 5% of all the tax payers money which is wasted just in Australia alone in only one year I would be a very rich man. What makes me sad is that most people who make a decision to waste this money don’t really care – it’s not their money. We have a budget and if that doesn’t work let’s bring on more taxes, raise the mortgage rates and let’s charge people more for food and petrol. Let’s make sure we have more money to throw away!

Unfortunately there is nothing much we can do about the system, but we can do something to get out of the rat race. We can legally reduce our taxes. And instead of working for our money we can make our money work for us. How we can do this? There are many different ways of doing this; some of them are investments, shares, inventions, and business.

What is the best way to make money, I cannot tell you because there are lots of people who do make lots of money. Most people who do make good money do so by doing what they love most.

We know already that getting rich from working for others and saving is very hard. So how is it possible to get rich and what does it take to get there? I guess first we should establish what is the meaning of Being Rich? Again it will be different for everyone. For the poorest of the poor in the third world countries like Somalia or Ethiopia everyone in first world countries is already rich. So in a way anyone who is reading this is rich. Then we can look at the richest people in this world who are worth billions of dollars, they do have billions of dollars but it doesn’t necessary mean that they are rich or happy. They just have a lot of money. I think there is a lot of wrong understanding of what it means to be rich. Richness or wealth is not just how much money you have, it is so much more.

I have seen great examples of wealth, happiness and money and the lack if it when I was living in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was quite amazing to see the rich and the poor and their approach to money and their level of happiness. I feel very privileged to have been able to have friends on both sides of the fence. Quite often the people who do have a lot of money are not always happy. They worry about being car-jacked or robbed or even killed in their own multimillion dollar homes and their happiness is somewhat limited. On the other hand I know people who don’t have much at all. They live in small steel sheds without electricity or running water. They don’t have much money at all; some of them work for a very small wage just to get them by but a lot of them are just the happiest souls you will ever meet! Ready to share with you their last slice of bread with a smile on their face. They find happiness in the simple things that most of us take for granted.

Wealth and happiness are not necessarily measured by how much money you have, therefore before we decide to get rich we should first look at where we are and decide if we are already rich. How much more do we want and how much is it going to cost us in time and effort and if we are we prepared to do it?

Cherish what makes you happy!

2011-03-28T05:13:00.001-07:00

Cherish what makes you happy!

What is happiness? What do you need to do to be happy and how do you keep happiness?

I am sure there is no one specific answer and everyone will have their own opinion on this subject. In today’s world there is so much suffering around us, natural disasters, wars, poverty and hard financial times among other things, and for most people life is getting harder every year. In such challenging times it is very hard to find constant happiness. So how is it possible to keep happy?

When we are teenagers we all have something we really enjoy doing, we all have our own problems and challenges but there is always something we really like doing. Whatever it is, it takes our mind off things, we forget about the rest of the world and we just are in the moment. For me it was and still is sport, but it could be other things as well.

When we get older our priorities change, we now have to pay bills, provide for ourselves and look after our families. Lots of us get stuck in jobs we don’t really enjoy, but someone has to pay the bills and often we lose our zest for life. Our days become monotonous and boring, we forget about the things which used to make us happy. We now have less time for ourselves because of the busy lifestyle most of us have.

One of the ways to bring back and sustain happiness is to determine what it is that makes us happy and cherish it. From many years of involvement in different sports, and research of association between sport and general wellbeing, I can confidently say that doing some sort of sport in ones life will bring happiness and balance. Sport or physical exercise might not bring instant happiness but it will definitely take your mind off whatever it is that bothers you. Most exercises will raise your heart rate and get more oxygen to your body, what this does is gives you a “clear mind” and better mindset to deal with everyday life.

At one of the openings of the Olympic games the president of the Olympic committee said;”Sport is friendship, sport is health, sport is everything”

Make a point to do more psychical exercise and I can assure you your life will be much happier one!

To achieve your goals you need happiness, sad people hardly achieve much.

Life changing mind set.

2011-03-25T06:08:00.000-07:00

As a teenager and a young adult I was not a very confident person. I did my sports and was quite good at what I was doing but I was shy and not confident at all. My family moved from Poland to Austria when I was 17 years old. I couldn’t speak German and I didn’t make any new friends, I was shy and didn’t want to say anything wrong even after I learned a bit of German. At the age of 19 we had moved again this time to South Africa and the same thing happened, I couldn’t speak English. I didn’t know anybody, I was shy, and on top of this my family didn’t have much money. We couldn’t afford to live in a nice house and didn’t have any luxuries. I wanted to continue with my sport and found a Karate school – Seido Karate, I just kept training. This was my escape from reality and I just loved my training.

As far as I was concerned this was all there was to life. I started working and I was supporting myself but I felt like I was stuck in Johannesburg. I didn’t think that there was a way for me to travel anywhere or move to another country.

I have followed my interest in mind power, meditation and spiritual healing. I have attended many workshops and seminars but one of the short courses was only a one day course that totally changed my mindset and possibly the rest of my life. It was a fire walk. We did a full day of meditation and work on motivation and at the end of the day we walked on burning coals. The walk was eight meters long. Every one of us stood at the beginning of the walk, and then we just walked on red hot burning coals. I didn’t burn my feet and the rush I got from this experience was amazing. It totally changed my mind set. My new way of thinking was if I can do this I can do anything.

This was long before my mother passed away. A few months after the fire walk experience I travelled to Poland for the first time in nine years. Once again I was in a situation where I was changing jobs, didn’t have any money and to make things worse my landlord sold the apartment I was renting and I didn’t have anywhere to move to. Finding a safe and cheap place to rent in Johannesburg is a challenging task, and unless you know someone the chances of finding something good are slim. I had only one thing on my mind. I knew what my goal was and concentrated all my energy on my trip. Everything worked out in an amazing way and in only four weeks from me making the decision I was sitting on a plane. I had confirmed to myself that the way to achieve anything is to concentrate on your goal, concentrate on the final destination and everything in between just happens.

Million dollars – 83 days to go.

Power of decision.

2011-03-23T05:31:00.000-07:00

85 Days to go. I didn’t really make much money yet, but I am getting more and more ideas.

How did I do it in the past? I think one of my most remarkable experiences was when my mother passed away on the morning of Tuesday 13 August 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The minute my Dad called me and told me what has happened, I decided that I will take my Mother to Poland and have her funeral in Poland on Saturday 17^th of August. I had no money then as I was in the process of moving to Australia. I had just sent all my stuff on a container, left my job so I wasn’t working at the time and had no income. I was trying to sell my house and was waiting to get some money from the sale. My dad never had any money so I could not count on him. I called my aunt in Poland, told her what happened and told her to organize a funeral for my Mother for the weekend.

She did not ask how I was going to do this, I figured in my voice that there was no doubt that I can do this. I had so many things I needed to get done. I also decided to take my father to Poland for the funeral as in my mind this was the right thing to do. I needed the post-mortem certificate and the waiting time to get this done was 3 weeks. There was also some sort of world summit happening in Johannesburg around that time and apparently there was no way we could fly out for the next few weeks as all the flights where booked out. My dad didn’t have a passport, my brothers and my dad had no good clothes to put on to go to a funeral we had for mum in Johannesburg.

We needed the Polish Consulates permission to take the remains out of South Africa and into Poland. In order to get that we needed some sort of certificate from Poland from the local Town Mayor or City Council and we needed the original copy which would take quite a few days to get. All processes would take a minimum of 4 weeks. I believe someone living in UK took six months to get through all that red tape to get a loved one a burial in Poland.

I have no idea how exactly I managed to do this, but on Friday night me and my dad and my mothers ashes where sitting on the plane to Poland. I managed to get the letter from Polish Consulate and a passport for my dad. I managed to get the post mortem, managed to get tickets, managed to dress everyone. So much happened in a few days and everything was just falling into place. I was on a mission and nothing was going to stop me.

How did I manage to achieve my goal? It was the decision I made, it was the vision and the sense of knowing that this is what is going to happen. There were absolutely no doubts in my mind that this was impossible. There was nothing which could stop me. I made a decision and all I had on my mind was the final goal, my mother’s burial in Poland in only few days. When I made the decision I had absolutely no idea what I will need to do or how I will do it but everything way just falling into place, bit by bit. I was just there … in the moment following my instinct. Following what my consciousness told me to do.

I miss my mother and I am very sad that she is gone at such a early age, she was 2 months short of her 50th birthday. I think she would be proud of what I did and how I managed to achieve what many would consider impossible.

If I could do this, I can do anything, a Million dollars is just a game. And I can do this too!

93 days to go - what is wrong with the world?

2011-03-15T14:27:00.001-07:00

The last few days have been very hard for most of the world watching the devastation in Japan hit by the earthquake and then the tsunami. Thousands of people have died and even more are left homeless. I find this so sad to see all the people losing their lives and I feel even more sorry for all the survivors who lost their loved ones, lost their homes and their life long savings. Homes they have had for generations, memories they have collected for centuries. I think its like taking someone soul away.
What makes me really angry is the fact that there are still people who will go and loot the devastated area, people who will take advantage of children who just lost their families. Just like what happened in Haiti, people traffickers taking children to slavery and prostitution. What is happening in this world. Whys are the laws protecting the bad guys? Why as a society are we permitting crime against other people? Why is it that a criminal after killing someone, or molesting a child, or raping a woman has got better treatment in jail than the victim left without much help? What is wrong with our world?
Why do we let this happen? Why are there so many drugs available to young people across the world? Who is making money out of this? Why are our governments and politicians letting all this happen. How come we as human kind are not protesting? Why do we think that it is OK when someone abuses a child? Is it because it is not our child? All the children are our children! What kind of future are we going to create for the next generations if we have millions of mentally unstable children who have been abused and exploited. Isn't this like a chain reaction. How can we be happy if the people around us are suffering in their adulthood and doing the same as to what was has been done to them? Why are 90% of TV shows on crime and violence? What are we trying to teach the new generation? Is this the 21st century or are we as a race going backwards? Why do politicians talk about moving forward but nothing much is done to stop crimes, violence and drug trafficking?

I do not know what the answers to those questions are, but I know that unless we do something drastic to change the way things are in this world then our children and their children will not have a good planet to live on.

Day four - 96 days to go

2011-03-11T03:11:00.000-08:00

Day four of my hundred days and I had a very busy day in my normal everyday work.

In the past I have made decisions to achieve certain goals. I have set myself a time as to when I want to achieve them. I have always made my own calendar which I would hang on the wall and look at every morning and every night. I have now also created a calendar for the next 100 days. It is a work in progress and it might still change. What changes is what happens between day 100 and day one but the dead line stays. The day by which I would like to achieve my goals is solid and will not change. This is my calendar;


My Million Dollar in 100 days challenge calendar	hallang

Million in 100 days ; day 3 - 97 days to go.

2011-03-10T03:11:00.000-08:00

I think I am getting there. I think I made $1.24. Still trying to figure out how the AdSense ad money works. It's telling me I made $1.24.

The Power of mind and how did it all start in my life?
There are events in everyones life we never forget. One of my real first experiences involving mind power, aside from my windsurfing equipment, was one of my cross country skiing races. I have been skiing since the age of three and in my teenage years I did a lot of racing and entered a lot of competitions. I loved racing and I also loved winning, which was not always the case, but I did win quite a few prizes and races over the years. One race I will never forget was when I was racing against my dad and another guy Rick in a 10 km race. The three of us left everyone behind in the first few kilometres. Dad was first, then Rick and I was few hundred meters behind them trying to keep up. My dad and Rick, who we skied with for a long time had a ongoing competition between them, most of the time my dad would win but there was always much talk afterwards how come Rick lost. On that day my dad was doing well but on the last few laps I saw him slowing down and crouching. I knew what happened, he had a stone on his kidney and on occasions he would get an attack of pain and would be out of action for a short while. When I realised what was going on I only had one thought in my mind. I have to defend our family honour. I have to win the race, I have to catch up and overtake Rick. My heart started pumping faster. I got extra power, I'm not sure where it came from, but it just did. I started chasing Rick. I didn't have much time to catch up to him. I think in only few seconds I had doubled my normal speed. I was getting closer quite quickly. My dad was left behind. Rick was only a few ski lengths away. The finishing line was getting closer. I had maybe another five hundred meters. I was going much faster than him. I thought there is no way he will win the race. I overtook him. I was first. I then thought I had to go even faster because I knew he was a strong fighter and he will do all he can to win. But my "super powers" were much stronger. I crossed the finish line. I looked back and Rick was still more then 50 meters from the line. How did i do this? I struggled to keep up with them and there I was in first place. Was it me or was it my mind? Did I do this just because I made my mind that I will do it. Now years later I know that my physical abilities only contributed to my success in a small way and my mind did the rest.
Since then a lot of similar stories have happened, some of which I would like to share over the next 97 days. But for now what I will do is make a calendar with a dead line and the finishing date the day on which I want my million dollars.
I don't want the money just for myself. I want to show others that it anything is possible. I want to do it to show kids like the kid who shot my best friend that there is another way. I want to convince the "don't" haves that there is a way to get what you want in life. Here I would like to apologise to all of the people who i call " don't haves" . It is not your fault that you don't have. It is not your fault that you are struggling. It is the way of the world. It is the system which doesn't want people to know that it is possible to have all you want in life. If we all had everything who would want to work, make bread, sell goods in the shops, teach, be a bus driver or a delivery person. But there is another way and there are examples of those people all around. My favourite is Richard Branson, what an inspiration! Ophra, Bill Gates, Harrison Ford and so many othere which started from nothing and built an empire.
You can read about those people in many books. They all have one thing in common. They had a vision. They made plans. They wanted something out of life and then opportunities came to them. Things come to you when you are ready!
I am ready to prove to myself and to others that it is possible to get anything you want in life!
If there is something someone can do then so can I. Nothing is impossible, we are all built out of the same substance. We are all the same but most of us just don't know how to "create" whatever it is that we want.
When we are at school we are given tools to be good doctors, good engineers, trades people, just workers in the society. Why doesn't anyone give us the tools to get what we want in life. The tools are there but only the selected few get them. There are a lot of books on this subject, but unless you search for it and are interested in 'Mind power" and what it can do for you, no one will tell you about it.
I was very lucky. I had some one who showed me the meditation technique, and this is how this all started. And now it is time for me to show people what I have learned.

Million in 100 days: day two - 99 days to go and I made my first money online! 0.13 of a dollar

2011-03-08T20:06:00.000-08:00

I made my first money online with AdSense $0.13.... well its a start.

From what I have already learned you should not ask how you will get what you want, but rather believe that you will get whatever it is you want. And i do believe that I can get what I want. It is a game, a challenge. And I know I can do it. It is scary, exciting, different, something I have never done before, but I believe that I can do this.

When I was just fourteen one of our family friends introduced me and my dad to meditation and visualisation. It was a very simple technique but I think it was the beginning of my very interesting journey into the exploration of mind power, or what I call it now mind games you play with your own mind.
What we had to do was to relax in a lying position, close our eyes and concentrate on our breathing, take three deep breaths and count from one hundred to one. It sounds easy but it is not, especially when your mind keeps wandering off and thinking about all sorts of things. When we eventually managed to count to one we had to visualise a screen like a TV screen or a cinema screen and put whatever we wanted on that screen - the things that we wanted to get and see it for as long as possible. When we were happy with the picture and our minds started thinking of something different that was the indication that our meditation session was coming to an end, then we had to slowly count from one to ten, take three deep breaths, relax for a short period of time and we could open our eyes again Over time and with experience the counting would be reduced, we would count from a hundred until such a number where our minds could relax and see the screen, and whatever we wanted on that screen without having our minds taking over and thinking of something totally different.We would count from hundred to ninety five before we could visualise the screen and over time the screen with whatever we wanted would become so clear in our minds that we could switch that screen on and off just like you switch the TV and change the channels.
What did I want as a 14 year old? Thinking back I didn't really want all that much. I was living in Poland under the communist regime, my parents had they jobs and worked in a factory. My dad was a shift foreman and back then was earning quite a good salary - $25 a month. My mum was a weaver and from memory she was earning about $ 18 a month. I think with some bonuses and overtime my parents were earning around $ 50 a month. I know is sounds very little but that's what it was. It wasn't that bad, we had money to go skiing and every school holidays I went to a sea scout camp for most of the two months holidays. I loved my sailing and skiing. When I look at the standard of living and what my family could afford back then I don't think that $ 50 a month was bad. Sure we didn't have luxuries but we had food on the table, a roof over our heads and clothes to wear.
I got addicted to windsurfing and all I wanted was my own windsurfing equipment. Not much some one would say but all that gear was manufactured outside of Poland, and just the mast, which is a small part of the equipment, would cost almost the whole year of my parents combined salaries if we didn't eat and pay bills for a year.
I knew it was not going to happen, but I still kept on visualising the windsurfing board and mast and sail.

I then decided that the only way I could get what I wanted was to build the windsurfer board myself, and so I started. I managed to bribe some one on a building site to give me some polyester foam which wasn't available in any shops. I got some glue from a friend who had connections and I managed to get fibreglass matt and resin from friends and their connections. I had all my materials and I was building my windsurfing board in my room on a fourth floor of a apartment building using my mothers kitchen instruments. Amazingly, my parents didn't kick me out of home.

Before i managed to finish making my windsurfer my dad decided to leave Poland and move to Austria as he didn't see much of a future for us in Poland.
I didn't mind so much because i knew that a lot of things were much cheaper in Austria.
After four months of living in Austria I bought my first windsurfing board with the all necessary equipment.

My first vision materialised! It took me a while because I didn't know that you can ask for what you want and the "date of delivery"

99 days to go. I still have to make $ 999.999.73

Millon Dollars in 100 days - day one - start from nothing ( Day one)

2011-03-07T16:24:00.000-08:00

Here I am 40 years old, with not much to my name, working 60 - 80 hour weeks.

I have read a lot of mind power and positive thinking books and articles, and I must say this has been working for me in most areas of my life. I have travelled the world, I have met a great life partner - my beautiful wife. But now I just find myself working long hours so that we can pay the mortgage and have a bit of fun - ie: go on holidays once a year. In the last few days I have been really tired with my current work and the long hours are just "killing me".
Last night, just before I closed my eyes before bed time, I had an idea. If I can attract things I want into my life, including travel, car, and a great wife, I should be able to also attract an abundance of money and wealth so that I can enjoy the things I really love doing. I know from all the books and my previous experiences that unless I make a decision nothing will happen. And unless I know what it is that I want then I will not get it.
So I have decided that I would like to make a million dollars in one hundred days. Sounds impossible, well I am not sure it if is. But what do I have to lose. I can only try and give it my best shot. So here I am, day one of my hundred days.
I made a decision of making a million dollars.
Can I do it or wow can I do it, I have no idea, but since I can get in life anything I want, that's what I want.

1.000.000 dollars I have nothing to start with. Where do I start?
I guess I need an account where the money will go, paypal sounds good. I will open an account today.
If I want to make million dollars in 100 days I should be making 10.000 a day...
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve my goal?
I am wondering if anyone did this before?

100 days to go,
Beginning of day one.

I made a decision
I started a blog
Created an account with Ad Sense
Signed up to ...Ad Sense. I think I will still need some sort of bank account, paypal - that's the only internet banking system I know of.
What do I do next?
Lunch - my stomach is beginning to hurt... didn't have much breakfast, I am so excited.

Back from lunch- have to do my normal work and THINK ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS.

What would I do with the money?

What would I do with a million dollars?
I would pay off my mortgage.
I would maybe take my wife on a holiday.
One of the things I would really like to do is to change someone life. Give some one a "light".
On 20 March 2002 my best friend was shot and killed for a mobile phone in South Africa...
He was killed by some kid who didn't know any better. Someone who didn't have a mobile phone.
In many countries around the world there are people who don't have.
Unfortunately this is not only in the third world countries. The "don't haves are all around us!
Is it their fault? Not sure. Who am I to say. I don't have much myself.
What I do have is hard work and a house owned by the bank which I will have to pay for for the next 25 years.... but at least I have this. A lot of people don't even have this.
I would like to show people that it is possible to be happy and get the things they like in life.
I would like to give hope to the kids who think that there is no way out. I am sure that I am not the only one who thinks along the same lines, but I don't know how to spread the word.
I would like to set up a youth centre where kids from broken families would learn life skills - not just a trade, but respect for themselves, for another, learn how to be able to live 'normal' lives.

My first day to million dollars.
I am not sure if million dollars would let me do what I want to do but I am sure it would be a good start.