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30DLBL Day 3 – Creating Your Vision Board

Celes — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:26:46 +0000

Today is Day 3 of Live A Better Life in 30 Days Challenge (View past 30DLBL tasks). If you have not signed up, do so here. Check #30DLBL on Twitter for latest news on the challenge.

Yesterday you designed your ideal life. It was amazing reading your ideal lives in the comments and your 30DLBL Day 2 entries (more here, and here). Some of you found resistance when doing the exercise at first, and if so it suggests disconnection with your inner self. Understand the resistance and why it’s there. As you work through the resistances, new emotions will pour in – emotions you didn’t know were there. Several participants shared that they cried when doing Day 1 / 2 tasks – Realize that this is a positive sign. To cry is to be connected with your inner soul, that part of you that you have stashed away in the past. As you were crying, ask yourself “Why am I crying? Why am I experiencing these tears? Why am I feeling this way?” Many of us have not been dreaming for a long time, and to finally do so is like opening a huge floodgate, and reconnecting with our inner soul.

Now that you’ve reconnected with him/her, don’t ever put him/her aside again. Remember that moment that triggered that strong surge of emotion, and hold strongly to that. This is the moment when your soul came alive again. These is the real you that you’ve been hiding underneath for so long. While our logical, analytical mind is important, it is really our emotions where our real power lie.

On an administrative note, as you share your comments for each day’s task, I seek your help to write about the task in the correct article to streamline the 30DLBL experience for everyone. Thanks a lot!

So today is Day 3, and we now officially have over 1,000 participants for 30DLBL . A big welcome to those who just joined! Newcomers can still sign up here and start working on Day 1′s task right away. Here’s the latest list of tasks to date.

Yesterday I provided a clue to today’s task – “AS ROBIN VOID” (an anagram). Did you manage to guess what it is? “AS ROBIN VOID” is an anagram for “Vision board”, and that’s precisely what we’re doing today.

Day 3 – Creating Your Vision Board

Today’s task will take about 1.5 hours.

What exactly is a vision board? Vision board is a board that contains your biggest, boldest, grandest vision . It contains your dreams, your passions, your hopes, your visions of the future.

Why is it important to have your vision board?

It’s a visual representation of your goals. Visual imagery is very important when it comes to goal settings. When it comes to achieving goals, realize that every goal is always created twice – first in your mind, then in real life. To achieve your goals in real life, you have to first know how it looks like and feels like, on a sensory level. Your vision board is a tool to convey those emotions and crystallize the images. The more you can articulate / put your goals into clear pictures, the better!
It’s an immediate reminder of what you want. Without a proper focal point, it’s easy be washed away by others’ goals, forget your own goals and lose touch with yourself. Your vision board is there to remind you of your vision and your truest goals. See it as a friendly nudge in the right direction towards your ideal life.
It drives you towards your goals. Simply looking at your vision board for just 1-2 minutes has the power to shift your state and drive you to take action on your goals. I know when I look at my own boards each time, I immediately remember what I want (and if I already know it, it crystallizes the mental image further) and why I want them. It reawakens that part of me that drove me to create the board in the first place; the part of me who seeks to be the highest self and to live my best life.

While we’re using the term “vision board”, it really refers to a space dedicated for your vision and goals. Your vision board can be a corkboard with images of your biggest goals and your aspirations mounted on it. Your vision board can be a gigantic notice board on your room with huge print-outs of your dreams. If you have no boards to mount the images on, you can simply use the walls in your room! Your vision board can even be a soft copy excel workbook or word document with a whole collage of images!

In fact, I have 1 official vision board (visions mounted on a corkboard), 1 unofficial one which are images placed over my noticeboard and 2 soft copy vision boards (in excel – 1 for my overall life and 1 for my personal development work), and it’s really a great way to reinforce my goals! I see them throughout the day that they’ve become second nature to me.

Here are some images of vision boards:

A few peeks at my vision board…

Being covered by international media for my personal work, including Forbes, New York Times, Business Week, Time, etc, and reaching out to even more people. The cash notes on the right are multiple million dollar notes, representing my financial abundance goal

Images of NYT, Business Week (with the adept cover on blogs, especially since blog/TPEB is a core part of my work in helping others grow), Time magazine, TV media coverage (bottom middle image is Channel News Asia)

Air jet This represents my goal to fly by private jet / have my own plane in the future.

My campus for TSOPE (The School of Personal Excellence, my training school). This is the image of Xavier School from X-Men (movies) and I absolutely love the Victorian, cultured look

(I’ve many more images from my personal vision board which I’ll share later in the day; right now I’ve to go out for coaching session)

How about your own board? How do you want your board to look like? Having identified your ideal life that makes you come 200% alive yesterday, today you will be creating a vision board on your very own ideal life

Your Task

Create Your Vision Board

Are you ready to create your very own vision board of your truest dreams?

If you already have a vision board of sorts, take this chance to update / refresh your board! Your vision board should house your biggest goals and dreams in your life. It represents your highest vision of what it takes to live your best life.

Get your corkboard and thumbtacks ready! If you’re making your vision board in soft copy, decide if you’re doing it in excel or in word, or any other document. I recommend having both a soft copy and hard copy for your vision board.
Take a few minutes to review the ideal life you wrote down yesterday and get into the state when you wrote it.
Now, visualize how your ideal life looks like as best as you can, on all 5 senses.
Get on the web and find pictures that best match your vision (Google Images and Flickr are good places to start)! As you find the pictures, focus on end outcomes. For example if you have a vision to be thin and athletic, having pictures of trim and fit people is more empowering than the picture of someone running. Also look for images that trigger the right emotions. This process might take a while depending on the images that come up – I know I can take quite some time to find the images I want. Whatever it is, don’t rush through this! The most important thing is to find the right images that convey your desired emotion and mental image.
Get as many images as you can. Make sure all your biggest goals are represented and ensure that other goals are covered too. Don’t leave any stone unturned!
As you find the images, collate them. Print them out, cut them and start arranging them on your corkboard. Portion them out based on how important the goal is – the more important goals should have bigger space allocation; they should also take the center placements on the board. This should take about 30 minutes.
After you’re done creating the board, put this up in a place you will see every day. My soft copy is open all the time on my computer and the physical copy of my board is beside my bed. I also have the images on the noticeboard in front of me .
From now on, schedule at least 10 minutes at the start of every day in your calendar to review your vision board and visualizing your goals coming to life

Continue Your 30 Day Action Plan

Refer to the 30DLBL actions you set for Day 3 and perform them with excellence today. Look at Day 4 and prepare to accomplish them the night of Day 3.

Share Your Vision Board!

How does your vision board look like? What images have you selected? How do you like your vision board? Are there more things to add on? Can you make it even better, richer, even more energizing?

Share your board with others in the comments area! You can also take pictures, upload them to Facebook / Image sharing sites and share them below I love this exercise because it’s fun to see all the different boards everyone creates! At the same time, it’s extremely inspiring to get to see each others’ biggest goals and dreams and know what makes us come alive

Day 4’s task will come tomorrow at the same time. Stay tuned!

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30DLBL Day 2 – What’s Your Ideal Life?

Celes — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:01:29 +0000

Today is Day 2 of Live A Better Life in 30 Days Challenge (View past 30DLBL tasks). If you have not signed up, do so here. Check #30DLBL on Twitter for latest news on the challenge.

We started Day 1 with life wheel assessment. It was absolutely amazing reading your responses and Twitter updates. Many of you got powerful insights doing the exercise which is fantastic! The exercise is meant to drive clarity on how you’re doing in life – and now you have a clear picture, work on maximizing your life, starting with this month (hence the 30 days action plan). Stick true to your 30 days action plan and make this your best month ever.

As I read the incoming new tweets on #30DLBL from participants and responses, I feel very honored to experience this journey with you. I am very impressed with the dedication you have put in towards living a better life. Several participants mentioned spending 2 hours (or even more) on the exercise; many participants have been blogging about their 30DLBL Day 1 tasks and journeys, including participant Shuwei who specially set up a 30DLBL blog for this purpose!

While this is framed a 30 day challenge, know that it’s really more than that. Ultimately it’s about you. It’s about your life. The attention you’re putting into this means you’ll reap even more rewards for yourself and your life too, for the 30 days and even long after that.

On another positive note, we have reached over 1,000 comments for our 30DLBL announcement post and over 900 sign ups! We even have a couple of husband/wife teams and participant Catherine who is engaging it as a family level project . A number of readers shared that they weren’t planning to join/just wanted to do this passively, then eventually jumped fully onboard after they got into Day 1′s task . In just a few hours, we’ll be hitting over 1,000 participants We’ve hit over 1,000 participants! Sign-ups will remain open for a couple more days for new visitors, as well as those who decide to join mid-way.

Without further ado, let’s now move to Day 2′s task.

Day 2 – Your Ideal Life

Today’s task will take about an hour.

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” ~ Richard Koch (101 Inspiring Quotes of All Time)

Do you remember when you were a little boy/girl? What would you think about? What were your biggest wishes and dreams? What were your aspirations? What did you want to be when you grow up? What did you want to achieve?

For many of us, childhood was a time when we would think about whatever we want. We were free to dream, to imagine, to visualize. We could be whoever we want. We could be Superman, Batman or Spiderman, and no one would tell us that we were crazy. We could set to be the richest person in the world, with all the supplies of ice cream and candy that we would ever want, and it was okay. We could want to be the president, and we would be praised for having such goals.

But somehow along the way, as we were growing up, things changed. Suddenly, certain goals would become labeled as “crazy” by others, and people who think that way would be seen as fools. Suddenly, certain thoughts or goals would be seen as not being “practical” or “realistic”, even though these are really our truest hearts’ desires. Suddenly, it was “wrong” to think/do this and that, and only certain goals were seen as “correct” or “appropriate”

Because of that, we began to think in limitations, rather than possibilities. We stopped thinking about what we want, things that make us come alive 200%. We start to live our lives in autopilot mode, so that we could get by every day. As a result, our ideals, our real self, became stashed to a corner. We forgot who we truly are. We forgot what are the things that make us come alive.

What if all our dreams are actually possible? What if everything is within your reach all along, and it’s a matter of first envisioning it then taking action to make it happen? How would you feel? What would you want to be? What would you want to do? Who would you want to be?

And it is possible. Everything that you’ve ever hoped and wanted is all possible. It’s all a matter of taking the right steps to achieve them, and to do so you have to first be consciously thinking about them. To live your truest, best life, you’ve to first identify your biggest wishes, goals and dreams; things that excite you, that make you come to life, that make you feel like you’re born on a whole new level.

Day 1′s task was about getting clarity and being aware. Day 2 is about possibilities, dreams, your wishes, your ideals, your deepest hopes and desires, your truest passions in life.

For today’s task, you’ll be designing your ideal life.

Your Task

Envision Your Ideal Life

Do this exercise when you’re alone and not going to be interrupted by anymore. You need the quiet, alone time.

Start on a fresh page in your 30DLBL workbook for Day 2. On top of it, write “My Ideal Life”

Envision your ideal life. For the next 45 minutes (or more), I want you to seriously answer this question:

What would you do if you can never, ever fail? What would you do if you have unlimited resources, time or networks? What are your biggest goals and dreams? What would you want to achieve in your life? What is your ideal life? What is a life you can look back and be proud of living, and tell yourself “I’ve truly lived to my fullest?”
Be bold; Write everything you want. You know how you get a menu whenever you go to a restaurant, and then whatever you’ll basically get the food that you order on the menu? See this paper as the menu of the God/highest power that you’re aware of, where whatever you write on it will come true. Write as much as you need to; 4 pages, 6 pages, or even more than 10 pages!! This should be a life where you’ll score >10/10 and >10/10 on each category of your life wheel too. As a small example, in my ideal life, TPEB reaches millions of readers every day; I’ve my very own international talkshow; I have books that are in top international best sellers’ lists; I run a full school campus for TSOPE which is my training business; (think Xavier school from X-Men); I’m on the cover of top magazines like Forbes/Times/Business Week/etc; I speak to hundreds and thousands of people in conferences/seminars; I have a private jet and much more. Be bold, be audacious, be free, be truly you. Be as specific as possible; the more specific it is, the more the universe will be able to bring this to you. Write everything that comes to mind. Even little details, nuances are relevant.
Your answers should cover all categories in your life wheel.
1. Business / Career / Studies – What are you doing? What achievements and results do you want to create? How big is your business/career? (If you’ve a business, will it be international?)
2. Finance/Wealth – How much money will you be earning? What property do you live in? What material possessions will you have?
3. Health/Fitness – How is your fitness level? How do you look? What is your diet like? How is your health?
4. Social/Friends – How is your social circle like? What are the kind of friends you are with?
5. Family – What are you doing with your family? How often do you meet them?
6. Romance/Love – (if you’re single) What is your ideal partner? How is he/she like? What do you love about him/her? Do you have kids? How many? How are they like?
7. Recreation – What do you do for recreation? What hobbies do you want to pursue?
8. Contribution – What will you be doing socially? How will you be giving back to the world / helping others?
9. Personal Growth – How will you be pursuing your personal growth? What will you be learning, growing?
10. Spiritual – How connected will you be with the world? How will you be pursuing your spiritual interests?
Your ideal life should meet your 4 core needs. For more details, read the exercise I wrote in an earlier article.
1. Body (physical needs)
2. Mind (mental needs)
3. Heart (emotional needs)
4. Soul (spiritual needs)

After you are done, look back and review what you have written. For the rest of the day, continue to think about what you want in your ideal life, and probe deeper. Fill in if there are new things that come to mind. Add more whenever you want to – this is to be dynamically updated and isn’t supposed to end here. While I’ve set an hour for this exercise, really it’s an exercise to think over and write about for the whole day.

Congratulations, you’ve just created your ideal life , and this is the start towards moving there. We’ll be referring back to this in our later 30DLBL exercises.

Continue Your 30 Day Action Plan

The 30 Day Action Plan you created yesterday will continue to be in effect for the whole month. Continue doing the actions you planned for each day and write down your progress/results in your 30DLBL workbook. Be committed to your actions! Being committed to your actions is also being committed to your goals, and subsequently your plan. Make sure you make time for them; if you can’t, then make sure to do them the next day. Don’t drop and discard them aside because you’ll be denying that better life for yourself.

Share Your Day 2 Results

Share your results on your ideal life in the comments . By sharing it openly, you’re also reinforcing it to yourself. For those of you blogging about 30DLBL, feel free to share your results and links in the comments area!

While I’m reading every comment and replying where I can, this challenge really involves all of us. We’re all here together in this and to support each other. So feel free to read each others’ responses and reply to one another! Encourage, egg other participants along. If you have some thoughts to share about a participant’ answer/response/question, simply reply! Let’s all share openly. Helping others is also helping yourself too. The more we share, the more we learn, the more we grow.

Preparation For Day 3

In preparation for Day 3′s task, you’ll need

A corkboard (with surface area as big as four A4 papers put together)
A box of thumbtacks (because the ones that come with the corkboard aren’t enough)
Colored printer ink if your printer is running low on colors

If you don’t have any of the above, you can get them at any regular bookstore. If you don’t have a printer, then there’s no need to get the 3 items (you’ll still be able to take part in Day 3′s task, don’t worry).

If you’re wondering what exactly we’re doing tomorrow, here’s a clue – “AS ROBIN VOID” (it’s an anagram).

Day 3’s task will come tomorrow at the same time. Stay tuned!

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30DLBL Day 1 – Your Life Wheel

Celes — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:15:42 +0000

Today is Day 1 of Live A Better Life in 30 Days Challenge (30DLBL). If you have not signed up, please do so here. Check #30DLBL on Twitter for latest updates from participants.

This is it . Today marks the start of a 30-day program to live a better life (30DLBL). We have over 800 whooping participants who signed up, and probably hundreds more who are participating passively.

Before I share Day 1′s activity, I want to let you know that all of you have blown me away with your enthusiasm, energy and zest towards improving your life. The 30 days ahead are going to be really exciting and definitely fun, to say the least! As with every goal we set out to do, there will always be things that crop up mid-way to veer us off course. If so, just remember your commitment to the challenge when you first signed up. Simply tell that obstacle: “Thank you, but no thank you. Living a better life at the end of the 30 days is more important to me. Everything else can wait“. This is your commitment to the others here who are participating in the challenge, and most importantly to yourself.

Set aside about an hour each day on your calendar for the task, preferably in the morning. Some tasks are shorter; some might take longer. If so just allocate the necessary time. Embrace each activity every day with an open mind, and you might very well find a brand new you at the end of the 30 days. Let’s support each other along through the comments for each day’s post and twitter with hashtag #30DLBL.

For those who are new and want to join, find out more and sign up here. I’ll be closing sign-ups in a few days’ time.

Your 30DLBL Workbook for 30 Days Ahead

For the 30 days ahead, you will need a workbook to write down what you did. It can be a random old notebook lying around in your house that’s unused; it can be a new book you buy specially for this challenge; it can even be a soft copy word document or excel workbook. Make sure it has at least 120 pages – Each day should have at least 4 pages for your writings (might be more or less depending on what you write).

Go grab a book now before you continue reading. After you finalize on your book:

Use it for every day’s activity. Basically everything you do should be written here, whether it’s an introspective exercise, a physical plan, a log of things you did, etc (again, depending on the day’s task).
Use the workbook to capture all your insights and learnings too.
On the 1st page of the book, write a personal note to yourself for the next 30 days. It doesn’t have to be long – it can be 2-3 paragraphs, or even 4-5 lines long. Write down a personal encouragement, what you expect of yourself for the 30 days ahead, and what you hope to become at the end of the month. Finally, sign off with your name, time now and today’s date. So now whenever you open your workbook, you’ll see this special note from you, to you .
Bring along this workbook all the time for these 30 days. Read it whenever you’re free to refresh on what you’ve learned.

Depending on demand and results of the challenge, I plan to release a full-fledged 30DLBL workbook after the challenge, complete with 30 days’ worth of tasks, worksheets, exercise templates, reflection log templates, improvements based this run and more.

Now, let’s RUMMBLLEE!!!

Day 1 – Your Life Wheel

Today’s task will take about 1.5 hours. It’s divided into 3 parts which can be done at different times of the day if needed.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Day 1 is the first day of the 30 days ahead. With the start of every journey, it’s important to know where we are starting. It’s like traveling from destination A to destination B – you have to first know where you are (A) to get to where you want to be (B). Hence, Day 1 is about getting clarity of your life right now. To do that, we’ll be using the life wheel.

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I first wrote about the life wheel last month. It is a wheel that gives you a snapshot of how you’re doing (a) overall in life and (b) individual areas of your life. It is essentially a circle divided into segments that represent your different life areas: career, finance, family, love, friends, recreation, contribution, personal growth, etc.

Below is a customized 10-segment life wheel I use with my coaching clients:

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For further reading: The Life Wheel

Your Task

Part I: Assessing where you are (20 min)

In your workbook, write down the 10 segments:
1. Business / Career / Studies (Pick the one that’s relevant)
2. Finance / Wealth
3. Health / Fitness
4. Social / Friends
5. Family
6. Romance / Love
7. Recreation / Fun
8. Contribution
9. Personal growth
10. Spiritual
Give yourself a score in each segment from 1-10 (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Draw your life wheel like the one below. (If you have a printer, print the life wheel (pdf) and paste it into your workbook.)
Mark your scores for each segment on the wheel.
Finally, connect the marks with one another. You should have a continuous line, like a web, that links across each segment and finally loops back to the original point.

Part II: Reflections… … (40 min)

Now that you have your life wheel drawn…

Reflecting on your scores. Look at your life wheel. This is how you are faring in your life right now. This is where your actions in the past few months have brought you. How do you feel about your scores?
- Are you proud of them? Are you satisfied? Or do you feel dissatisfied? How so? Do you think you can do better? Do you think you’re worth much more? Is this what it means to live your best life? Pen down all your feelings and thoughts in your workbook. There is no limit on how much to write. The more you write, the better.
Understanding why you are here. It is not a coincidence that you have these scores right now. If you had done a life wheel assessment a month ago, 2 months ago, or one month later, 2 months later, you’d end up with similar scores too. (I know I would) The bigger question is – why? What are the 3 biggest reasons your life wheel looks like this?
Knowing the lowest points. Fact is, all 10 segments represent our life. Some people may think they can just ignore 3-4 segments and score a 0-1 there – but it doesn’t work that way. Whenever there’s a part of your life that is blocked (or put on hold), a part of you is blocked too. Which segments have the lowest scores? Have you been putting off? Why?
Coming to terms with your scores. Are you happy with your life wheel? What if you have to stick with these scores forever? How would you feel? Is this what what you want?
Envisioning your ideal life. What does your ideal life wheel look like? What will be the scores for each segment? Please elaborate.

Spend as much time as you need to reflect on your current status. Don’t rush this process. The more you reflect and understand how you came to be where you are, the better you’ll be able to address it moving forward.

If you are totally happy with the way things are and you don’t want to do anything about your life, your task for today stops here. However, I’m sure that for you to sign up for this challenge, you are someone who constantly seeks for betterment, who goes for the higher grounds, who seeks to get the absolute maximum out of your life. And this is what Part III is above.

Part III: Create Your Best 30 Days Ahead (40 min)

Now that you know you stand, what do you want to do in the month of September, such that you know you’ve lived the month in the best possible way ever?

Creating your vision for the month. What are your key goals for this month where you’ll feel you’ve lived the 30 days to the absolute fullest? List all of them down.
- Your goals can come from any of the 10 categories in the life wheel.
- They can be big or small. You can have career specific goals, to achieve X target and X results. You can have social goals, say meeting X friends. You can have health goals, say lose 2kg by month end. You can also have family goals, say bringing your family out for dinner. Romance goals can be going on X dates in the month. You can have habit goals like meditating once/day.
- There are no limit to the number of goals you can set. The more you set, the more you stretch your yourself, the richer your experience will be for the next 30 days. Simply put, the more goals you set the more you’ll gain. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose from setting more targets for yourself.
Map out the tasks to achieve your goals.
1. Map out a table of the 30 days, also known as your September 30 Day Action Plan. If you have a printer, print the action plan template (pdf, see image below). Otherwise, you can draw it manually.
2. Identify the tasks you’ve to do in the month to achieve the goals. For example, if you have a health goal is to lose 2kg, maybe your task is to exercise 45 minutes on Mon/Wed/Fri for all 4 weeks. If you have a goal to meet friends, your task would be to (a) arrange for a date (b) meet them.
3. Fill out the tasks in their respective dates. This creates absolute clarity of what you need to do and by when. Make sure your planning gives you room to do your regular work and accomplish your tasks.
  
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Commit yourself to action on your September 30 Day Action Plan
- Your job for each day is to do and finish what you have planned every day. Put your action plan in a prominent place where you have to see it all the time, every day (in your folder, on your notice board, in your organizer, etc). Make sure you commit to the task and finish it no matter what. When you finish it, cross it off the list with great satisfaction.
- What tasks can you already start doing today (Day 1) to kickoff your 30 days on a high gear?

(To clarify, the 30DLBL Day 2-30 tasks are separate from your 30 Day Action Plan. You will carry out the tasks in your 30 Day Action Plan as I share new daily days for the other 29 days of this challenge. There will synergistic effects whether it’s doing your action plan or a 30DLBL official daily task since everything is about increasing self-awareness and maximizing your life.)

Share Your Day 1 Results

Share your thoughts on today’s exercise in the comments. You can share your life wheel, the insights you got from it and why you’ve the scores you have today. You can also share your 30-day action plan (or a part of it) and your plans for the next few days to kick your month on a high gear.

I noticed a number of you has been blogging about your participation in the 30DLBL, which is fantastic! Feel free to share the exercise and your insights on your blog. In sharing with others the changes and movements you’re making on your life, you are inspiring others to do the same too.

Day 2′s task is here: Envisioning Your Ideal Life

30DLBL in Media: Australia ABC Interview

Australia’s ABC radio network got wind of our 30DLBL and they’re planning to interview on the challenge and what it’s about! That’s more power to over 800 participants who are taking part in 30DLBL here! Who doesn’t want to live a better life?? I think everyone does!! I’ll keep all of you updated in due time.

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Announcing: “Live A Better Life in 30 Days” Challenge for September!

Celes — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:52 +0000

To all newcomers – You can still join the challenge! Sign up here and start working on Day 1′s task. Here’s the list of tasks unveiled so far.

Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.

Do you seek to live your best life? Have you been putting any parts of life on hold? Are you interested to move your growth to a whole new level in the next 30 days? Do you want to maximize your life experience?

If so, you have to join the upcoming Live a Better Life in 30 Days Challenge! Come the month of September, I’ll be conducting a full 30-days challenge to live a better life, and I invite all of you who are passionate about living a better life to join in

“Live A Better Life in 30 Days” Challenge

So what exactly is this about? Previously I’ve been alluding to this challenge in Facebook/Twitter, as well as in the previous article 101 Ways To Live Your Best Life, and have been receiving many interested responses.

What’s going to happen: For the entire month of September (30 days), I’ll be conducting a 30 days Challenge To Live A Better Life (30D LBL). What’s going to happen is I’ll share a task every day on the blog, a task which will move you towards living a better life. The task can be something small, from a self-reflection question/exercise, to trying out a new habit, to a bigger scale activity that requires you to get out there and do something (it’ll be real fun too – no gimmicky stuff, don’t worry. I hate gimmicks myself). These are not random tasks assigned for the sake of doing them – They embody the principles I share here at the blog to live your best life. Each task has been specifically created to drive you on the path of self-discovery, conscious living and personal growth. I have personally designed/set each of task and have also done them myself, so I know they have their intended effect.

I’ll unveil the activity every morning, 6am Singapore time (GMT +8) at the blog. Your focus for the day is to do that specific task for the day, and share your results in the comments area of that day’s post. That means at the end of 30 days, you would have done 30 tasks. The tasks have been set in a specific order to deliver the end objective, so it’s important you do them in that sequence.

The end goal at the end of 30 days is for you to emerge a better, more aware and conscious person living a better life compared to 30 days ago.

Daily Outline for 30 Days ahead

Morning, 6am: I’ll post the day’s task 6am Singapore time (GMT +8, Greenwich Mean Time. Refer to The World Clock on time differences between SG and your country) here at the blog. I recommend you to read in the morning. Why? Morning is when you start the day and no better way then to start off with a focus on what to do. Also, when you read it in the morning, you have the rest of the day to think over it/do it. SG timing is ahead of most of the world, so the task should be online during morning your time. Join the free newsletter to get the mail delivered in your inbox every day.
The Task: I’ll share (a) What the task is about (b) Instructions on how to do it. I’ll also be sharing additional documents applicable. Each day, there will be a journal template where you can fill in your thoughts/insights/reflections.
What you have to do: Your focus for the day is to do that task. Don’t put it off to the next day or think of accumulating the tasks to finish in a day. Simply stick to 1 task a day. Each task can take from 15-45 minutes, though if you want you are free to spend more time on it too (the more time you spend, the higher the results you’ll get!) I recommend you put aside an hour every day so you’ll get quality output. Some readers mentioned they spent 2 hours on each task, but that’s purely at your own choice. If you’re willing to invest more time, you’ll gain more.
At the end of the day: Share your experience in the comments area for that task. Also write down your thoughts/insights/reflections in the daily journal template that will be provided. This means at the end of 30 days, you’ll have 30 insights to look back on.

Join “Live A Better Life in 30 Days” Challenge

I encourage all of you to join this challenge with everyone else. With 8,500 regular readers at this blog, we have a large community of conscious individuals passionate about growth to drive each other forward. It’ll be fun to participate together, learn from one another and grow . In fact, I’ve been meaning to conduct such a challenge for a while, but haven’t as I want to have a critical reader mass to reach out to a sizable crowd. With over 8,500 members, it’s a great time to start .

To officially participate, express your interest now in the comments area latest by 31 Aug (sign-ups has been extended for a few more days for new visitors! Hurry and sign-up now) It’s 100% free to join. You can also participate passively, but it’s better to get down to it and commit yourself to it. You’ll find that doing this with everyone, sharing your experience with others, will make it a much richer experience for yourself. Use an alias/nickname if you want – it doesn’t matter. The most important thing is you participate so you commit yourself to living a better life.

To help all of us be accountable, I’ll be creating a list of participants in my comment below. All of you who wants to participate will be added to the list. If you have previously commented elsewhere (in another post/Facebook message/Tweet) of your intention, it’s not counted yet. Post in the comments to officially join in!

Update 2 Sep: Gosh, I’m getting blown away by the overwhelming response by all of you!!! 100 160 259 328 400 600 700 800 Over 900 participants to date and increasing every few minutes!! Can we hit 1000 participants? Please share about this challenge with everyone you know – whether on Twitter, FB, SU or email! Let’s get as many people to join in as possible!

I absolutely can’t wait till the challenge starts!

Spread the Word – Get Your Friends / Loved Ones To Join

Share about the 30 Day Challenge To Live A Better Life with your friends, family and network and get them to join the challenge too. Retweet (#30DLBL is our twitter hashtag), Share on Facebook, share on your favorite social media and email to others via the buttons below. If you have a blog, please spend a few minutes to write about this and invite your readers. Get them to join you in living a better life with this coming September! Let’s get the word OUT THERE! The more people we have on this challenge, the more positive momentum we’ll generate, the richer this experience will be.

Look forward to your sign-ups! The 1st task will be shared soon on Sep 1st

#30DLBL Hashtag for Twitter Users

It’s going to be an exciting 30 days ahead, and while each task in the 30 days is an activity that can be done independently, it’s always better when we have user support. It’s fun to see what each other is doing and egg/support everyone in this challenge along. The power of a group acting in synchronicity together isn’t to be underestimated.

For this purpose, I’ve created a twitter hashtag of #30DLBL (30 Days Live a Better Life) for participants who have Twitter accounts. Click on the link and you’ll see the latest results of people tweeting with that tag. You can also subscribe to the feed so you’ll be updated when there’s a new tweet with #30DLBL.

Whenever you’re tweeting about something related to the challenge, simply type in #30DLBL in the same message as your tweet. Feel free to tweet about your daily progress via this hashtag. I’ve started to do that an hour ago and other twitters are following on now. This is not just a challenge now – it has become a movement to change our lives for the better! On this note, I deplore all of you to help tweet/share about this challenge out to everyone out there whom you want to live a better life. This is a rare opportunity to have such a challenge, so let’s get everyone we know onboard! #30DLBL

30 Days Overview

This will be the overview page for the 30 tasks on the 30 days.

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101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest

Celes — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:30:25 +0000

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“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs (101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time)

How do you feel about your life today? Are you living every day in exuberance? Do you love what you’re doing? Are you excited every single moment? Are you looking forward to what’s coming up next? Are you living your best life?

If your answer to any of the above is a no, maybe or not sure, that means you’re not living your life to the fullest. Which really shouldn’t be the case, because your life experience is up to you to create. Why settle for anything less than what you can get? You deserve nothing but the best. In the past years of my life, especially since after I pursued my passion in ’08, I’ve been living every day to the fullest, filled with joy, passion and rigor. It’s an amazing experience that I want you to experience that too.

This is a list of 101 timeless principles I use to live my best life, and I hope they’ll help you to do so too. As you live in alignment with them, you’ll find yourself becoming more conscious, more alive, and more importantly, experiencing life on a whole new level. Be sure to bookmark or even print out this page and refer to it daily to guide you to your best life.

Here are 101 ways to live your life to the fullest:

Live every day on a fresh new start. Don’t be held back by what happened yesterday, the day before, the week before, the year before, and so on.

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Be true to who you are. Stop trying to please other people or be someone else. It’s better to be an original version of yourself than an exact duplicate of someone else.
Quit complaining. Don’t be like the howling dog, always howling and never doing anything. Stop complaining about your problems and work on them instead.
Be proactive. Stop waiting for others around you to do something and take action yourself instead.
Rather than think “what if”, think “next time”. Don’t think about things you can’t change (namely what has happened and thoughts of other people) or unhappy things because these are disempowering. Instead focus on the things you can action upon. That’s the most constructive thing you can do in any situation.
Focus on WHAT vs. How. Focus on WHAT you want first, before you think about HOW to do it. Anything is possible, as long as you set your mind, heart and soul to it.
Create your own opportunities. You can wait for opportunities to drop in life. Or, you can go out there and create your own opportunities. The latter is definite and much more empowering.
Live more consciously each day. Stop sleepwalking through life. Your life is something to be experienced, not coasted through.
Be committed to your growth. In the Map of Consciousness, there are 17 levels of consciousness – from Shame to Enlightenment. The higher level of consciousness you are in, the richer your life experience. Achieving higher consciousness comes from your commitment to growth.
Know your inner self. This means knowing who you are and what you represent. Be clear of your personal identity.

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Discover your real life purpose. Set the mission statement for your life; one that will drive you to life your life to the fullest.
Live in alignment with your purpose. What can you start doing immediately that will let you live 100% in alignment with your purpose? How can you live true to your purpose within every context/situation/environment you are in, every second of the day?
Set your life commandments. Define your personal commandments to live your best life. What adages and principles do you want to follow in your life?
Discover your values. Values are the essence of what makes you, you. Read article #11: Discover Your Values in The Personal Excellence Book on the importance of values, my values and how you can create your own.
Hold yourself to the highest conduct. Every one of us have our own set of ethics, principles and moral codes. Live true to them every day. Also, live in full alignment with your purpose (#11), commandments (#13) and values (#14).
Design your ideal life. What is your ideal life? Design it. First, assess your life at the moment via the life wheel. Then, ask yourself what it takes to live a 10/10 life (in all 10 areas – career, health, love, social, etc…). What is the life that will make you the best person you can ever be? Set your BHAGs – big, hairy and audacious goals! There are no limits in life – only those you set for yourself!
Stop putting life on hold. Are you putting any parts of your life on hold? What is one area of your life you have been putting off/avoiding/denying? Uncover it and start working on it.
Create your life handbook. Your life handbook is your life-long personal manual to live your best life – from your mission statement, your values, your long-term goals, short-term goals, personal strengths, blind spots to address, plans, among others. Create your book first then build on from there.
Set your goals. After you design your ideal life, set your 5-year, 3-year and 1-year goals. The more specific your goals, the better! Read the 10 principles on how to get winning goals.

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Take action on your goals and dreams. Create an action plan with your strategy, plan and immediate next steps. ESPER: 7-part Goal Achievement series is a great tool to get you started.
Create your bucket list, i.e. things to do before you die. Then, get out to achieve them.
Don’t do things for the sake of doing them. Always evaluate what you’re doing and only do it if there is meaning behind them. Don’t be afraid to quit the things that don’t serve your path.
Do the things you love, because life is too precious to spend it doing anything else. If you don’t enjoy something, then don’t do it. Spend your time and energy on things that bring you fulfillment and happiness.
Discover your passion in life. What sets you on fire? Go out there (and explore inward) to know what you love to do.
Make your passion a full-fledged career. Then, start pursuing it. Stop working in a job you are passionless towards. Quit your job when you are ready to do it full-time.
Turn your passion into a huge success. Turn your passion into a multi-million dollar business. Better yet, make it a multi-billion dollar one.
Learn from criticism. Be open to criticism but don’t be affected by it. Criticism is meant to help you be a better person. Learn from it.
Be positive. Is the glass half empty or half full? How about neither? It’s actually all-full – the bottom half is water, the top half is air. It’s all a matter of perception. Take on empowering perceptions, not those that bind you. If you can see the positive sides of every thing, you’ll be able to live a much richer life than others.

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Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. The law of reciprocity – Golden Rule
Don’t complain or badmouth about other people.
Be empathetic. If everyone only see life from his/her own perspective, we’ll forever be close-minded and insular. See things from others’ shoes.
Be a compassionate person. Show compassion and kindness to everyone around you
Develop 100% self-belief. Believe in yourself and your abilities. If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect others to believe in you?
Let go of unhappy past. This means past grievances, heartbreaks, sadness, disappointments, etc.
Forgive those who may have done you wrong in the past. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize it was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes
Let go of attachments. Don’t fixate yourself with a certain status, fame, wealth or material possessions. These are impermanent and will ultimately disappear one day when you die. Focus on growing and living life to the fullest instead.
Let go of relationships that do not serve you. That means negative people, dishonest people, people who don’t respect you, people who make you feel bad about yourself and relationships that prevent you from growing.
Spend more time with people who enable you. Hang out with people who you compatible with, like-minded people, people who are positive, successful, strong achievers and positive for your growth. You are after all the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.

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Build genuine, authentic connections with people around you – strangers, friends, family, colleagues, business partners, customers/clients, etc. Spend more time to know them better and foster stronger connections.
Connect with an old friend. There is no end to the number of friends you can have. Reach out to people from the past.
Do a kind deed a day. What is something you can do today that will make the world a better place? Go and do it.
Help other people who are in need. Voluntarism is one outlet. You can also start with your friends and family.
Help people when they least expect it, without reason. You don’t need any reason to help others. Do it because you want to. Share the love with everyone.
Go dating (if you’re single).
Fall in love ♥
Review your life. Set a weekly review session to assess how you are doing for your goals and your life. Review your purpose once every 3-6 months too so you know you’re on the right path.
Overcome procrastination. Procrastination is a huge waste of your time (and your life). Get rid of it once and for all.
30 minutes a day. Set aside at least 30 minutes every day to work on a quadrant 2 goal that, when you achieve it, will bring about the biggest source of fulfillment and happiness in your life
Get out there and make new friends – whether in your workplace, online, friends’ friends, social groups, etc.
Be your advisor (from the future). Imagine you’re the future you, 5 years later. How would you advise yourself? Write it down. Now, apply them. Check out a related article #17: Future Prediction Exercise in The Personal Excellence Book, which is about predicting your future then learning from it.
Write a letter to your future self. Actually, write 3 letters – for yourself in 1, 3 and 5 years. The longer the letters, the better. Envision how you’ll be like in the future. Make each letter a minimum 2 pages long. Now, seal them and put them in a safe place. Set it in your calendar so you’ll know to open them when it’s time. This will inspire you to work your hardest and achieve your maximum results in the time period.

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Declutter. Start from your computer, then your table, your room, your bag/wallet, and your home. The more you throw the unwanted and old stuff away, the more room you’re creating for new things to enter.
Keep learning. There is something to learn from everything you see, hear and experience. This includes your mistakes and past misshaps (if any). Learn to interpret each event objectively. Focus on what you can learn from it so you can apply them moving forward.
Keep developing yourself. Equip yourself with a huge breadth of knowledge. Learn different skills, pick up different hobbies, study different fields.
Keep upgrading yourself. Equip yourself with a huge depth of knowledge. While you can usually only level up to 99 in video games, in real life you can level up to infinity. Go for further studies if need be. Develop your skills. Level up. Build your >10,000 hours in each skill.
Try new things. What’s something you’d normally not do? Get out of your comfort zone try something different. It can be something simple like taking a new bus route, trying a new food item, picking up a new hobby, or something bigger like studying a different field, picking a new skill, traveling to a country you’ll never visit, etc. You set your own limits.
Get yourself out there. This applies for everything. (a) Get out there geographically. Go out, travel and explore the world. Set sail into the sea. Go backpacking by yourself and visit as many countries as possible. Get on a road trip and visit the different places that come out. (B) Get out there situationally. Stop sticking to routines and comfort zones. Try something different. (c) Get out there in life. Stop watching TV and living vicariously through the TV characters. Go and live the life of your dreams.
Be the absolute best in what you do. Go for the #1 position in what you do. If you want to spend your time doing something, you might as well be the best in it. Strive for the best – you don’t deserve anything lesser than that.
Don’t settle. In the same lines as #58, don’t settle for less. Don’t settle for someone you don’t like as your partner. Don’t settle for a job you don’t like #25). Don’t settle for friends who make you feel like a lesser person (#37). Don’t settle for a weight you are unhappy with. Go for what you really want.
Stretch yourself. What are you doing now? How can you achieve more? Set bigger goals. Explore your limits and break them.
Embrace new ideas. Don’t mentally limit yourself; Let your mind be a breeding ground for new ideas. Read: 25 Brainstorming Techniques.

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Create your inspirational haven. Turn your room into a place you love. Do the same for your work desk. Get rid of things that make you unproductive. Surround it with things that inspire you and trigger you to action. Read more: How To Create An Inspiring Room
Behave as your ideal self will. All of us have an ideal vision of who we want to be. How is your ideal self like? How can you start to be that ideal self now?
Set your role models in life. With role models, you become much better than you can be by yourself. I personally am inspired by Tyra Banks (for her passion for helping women build their self-esteem and changing notions of beauty), Ivanka Trump (for her success, intellect and beauty), Donald Trump (for his success and drive in life), Oprah (for being who she is), Lady Gaga (for her talent and not being afraid to be different), and many more. Seeing them and what they do reminds me of what I can be and what I can do, so they drive me on to greater heights.
Get mentors and/or coaches. There’s no faster way to improve than to have someone work with you on your goals. Not only will they drive you to achieve more for yourself, they’ll also share with you important advice which you can use to create even more success for yourself. Many of my clients approach me to coach them and the net result: they achieve significantly more progress and results in their life than if they had worked alone.
Uncover your blind spots. The more you uncover, the more you grow, the better you become.
Increase your consciousness. The more conscious you are, the more evolved you become.
Ask for feedback. As much as we try to uncover our blind spots (#66), there will be areas we cannot identify. Asking for feedback gives us an additional perspective. Some people to approach will be friends, family, colleagues, boss, or even acquaintances, since they will have no preset bias and can give their feedback objectively.
Generate passive income. Create passive income streams so your income is not tied to the time you spend on your work. Of course you’ll still continue to work, but only because you want to and not because you have to.
Help others live their best lives. There is no better way to grow than to help others grow. Ultimately, the world is one. We are all in this together.
Get married / Start your family / Have kids!
Improve the world. There are many things in the world that needs your attention and help. Poverty. Disaster recovery. Illiteracy. Children in need. Depleting rainforests. Animal rescue. Endangered species. How can you do your part?

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Spearhead a humanitarian cause/organization you are passionate about.
Give more value than you receive. There is so much unspeakable joy that comes from giving. And when you keep giving, you’ll find that you actually receive a lot more in return, in spades.
Be big picture focus. You can either set your eyes on the big things or get hung up by the nitty gritty details. The former will help you get a lot more out of life than the latter. Focus on the big rocks in life and put first things first (Quadrant 2 tasks). Practice the 80/20 rule – focus on the 20% things that give you the 80% fulfillment in life.
Be clear of your end objective. What is the end goal you seek? Is what you’re doing bringing you there? If not, put it aside. As long as you keep taking on things that meets your end goal, you’ll eventually reach there.
Go the 80/20 route. For every goal you have, there are different paths to achieve it. Pick out the 80/20 path, i.e. the most effective path that brings you there the fastest with least amount of effort.
Prioritize (80/20 actions). As you embark on the 80/20 path for your goals, focus on the important tasks and cut out the less important ones. That means do the 20% actions that give you the 80% results.
Live in the moment. Are your thoughts wandering around all the time? Calm your mind down. Be present. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment. Meditation helps to remove mental clutter.
Relish in the little moments. Snuggling under warm covers on a rainy day. Ice cream on a hot day. A kiss with your loved one. Being with your best friend. A walk by the park. The breeze on your face. Quiet, alone time. Watching the sun rise/set. Soak in all these little moments of life. They are what make up your life.
Take a break. Being the best also requires you to take breaks when needed. Make sure you rest when needed. Doing so lets you walk the longer mile ahead.
Stop wanting things a certain way. I wrote a 3-part series before on the downsides of perfectionism and how to overcome them. Be firm on your end goals and your ideals, but let go of the fixation that things have to be a certain way. You’ll realize it’s by doing that that you achieve what you want.

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Focus on creation.
Don’t criticize or judge others. Respect others for who they are.
The only person you can change is yourself. Stop expecting others to behave in a certain way. Rather than demand that others around you change, focus on changing yourself. You’ll be happier and live a more fulfilling life this way.
Embrace gratitude. Be grateful for everything you have today, and everything you will get in the future.
Express gratitude. Let the people who’ve touched you know of your gratitude towards them. You’ll be surprised what a little act like this can do. If you don’t tell them, they’ll never know.
Let loose and have fun. Sing at the top of your lungs. Dance in the rain . Run barefoot and feel the ground underneath your feet. Release of your self-imposed shackles and be free .
Get into nature. Many of us live in concrete jungles. Soak in the beauty of nature.
You have a choice. Recognize you always have a choice in how to live your life.
Laugh more . Are you reading this with a straight face? Smile and have fun .
Embrace change. The only thing that’s constant is change. Change means growth. Rather than resist change, learn to versatile such that you can make the best out of the changes that come. In fact, become an agent of change.
Be more risk-inclined. Don’t be afraid to take risks. The bigger your risks, the bigger your return.
Embrace mistakes. The more mistakes you make, the faster you learn. Make sure to draw lessons so you can build on them. (#53)
Embrace disappointments. Many people try to avoid feeling disappointed. They develop a resistant relationship with disappointment. However, disappointment is part and parcel of being human – it reflects your real passions. Don’t resist it – instead, embrace it. Understand it, then channel into it to create more in life. Read: How To Overcome Disappointment (4-part series)

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Challenge your fears. All of us have fears. Fear of uncertainty, fear of public speaking, fear of risk… All our fears keep us in the same position and prevent us from growing. Rather than avoid your fears, recognize they are the compass for growth. Address and overcome them. Read: How To Overcome Fear (3-Part Series).
Maximize your mind, body, heart and soul. Living your best life requires you to maximize yourself mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. If you’re highly successful, very materially abundant, have a big circle of friends, very spiritually aware but you neglect your physical health, that’s not living your life to the fullest. The same for other scenarios where a part of you is blocked off. Maximize all 4 aspects of you.
Be your best self. Essentially all the articles here at The Personal Excellence Blog are about being your best self and achieving your highest potential. It’s only through being the best we can be that we live our life to the fullest. This is why the motto of the site is “Be your best self, Live your best life“.
Love yourself. You are the person you have to live with for the rest with your life. Treasure and love yourself.
Love others. Be grateful for all the people around you because they help you to grow. They enrich your life experience. Without them, your life would not have been the same.
Last but not least: Love life. I always find living to be a fascinating experience. How we’re all on earth, with millions of species, 30,000 different life forms, over 7 billion people, and all thriving in its own way, existing, co-existing and in co-creation mode. There’s so much we don’t know out there, so much to be experienced in life, that it’s just wonderful.

The 101 Series

If you like this post, you’ll love the other posts in the 101 series: 101 Things To Do Before You Die and 101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time. The posts have also been compiled into ebooks, which are totally free for newsletter subscribers. Subscription is free, so download them immediately by subscribing now.

Upcoming 30 Day Challenge To Live A Better Life

For the month of September, I’ll be organizing a 30 days challenge to live a better life, in accordance with the principles shared in this post. Each day, you’ll have a different activity to do as you live your life to your fullest and you’ll be invited to post your results in the comments area for that day’s post. It’ll be an incredibly fun and exciting challenge! Visit Live A Better Life in 30 Days Challenge to find out more and sign up (it’s 100% free).

How To Start When You Have Nothing

Celes — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:37:50 +0000

This is part of the Ask Celes section where I answer readers’ questions. Feel free to send in your questions (guidelines here).

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Hi Celes, I was in a fairly negative place last year. My #1 goal was to get out of the place and now I am finally out of that environment. I’m now ready to heal and get on with my life, to start anew. Yet there are no positives just yet to build on. Where does one begin with nothing at all? – Melanie

Hi Melanie, thanks for your question. First off, I want to congratulate you for moving past the negative place in your life. It takes tenacity and strength to move past a negative stage in life, and you’ve successfully done so. You should feel proud about yourself.

A common question many of us ask ourselves is this – How do I get from where I am to where I want to be if there is nothing to build on in the first place?

For example, you want to start a business, but you have no experience in business development. You want to shift to a different career field, but you don’t have knowledge in the area. You want to be the top in what you do but you have no know-how. You want to let go of your past and start on a new journey, but there is nothing for you to start off with. It’s like a catch 22 situation. Like a potter who needs his tools and clay, you can’t create something if there is nothing. And if you can’t create something, you can’t get anything.

If you have ever felt this way about your goals, there are a few points which I want to share with you.

Everyone Starts From Nothing

The first thing I want to point out is that everyone starts from nothing. Rich people, poor people, successful people, non-successful people, top achievers, non-achievers – all these people start from a place where they had nothing. Forget about family background, because these aren’t determinants of success – there are as many successful people in this world from poor families as there are from rich families. Let’s focus on one’s personal achievements and knowledge, because these are arguably what one uses to build future success.

I remember when I was in secondary school, there was a group of PRC students who joined us in the upper secondary years. The school principal invited them over to study as part of a movement to attract foreign talents. These PRC students were brilliant, particularly in Maths and Chinese. They would easily ace every single Math and Chinese test and cream the local students, without having to study. Over time teachers and students just took it as a given that they were the gods of Maths and Chinese, that they were born this way, and it was impossible to ever beat them.

Yet if you were to break down their strong standing in the subjects, it was apparent that their knowledge of Maths and Chinese came from somewhere – specifically (1) their previous school, where their syllabus was a whole lot more advanced than our local syllabus, and (2) years of conditioning in a Chinese environment. And before they attended their previous school and before they were brought up in China, right when they were tiny little babies born into this world, would they know anything about differential equations, binomial theorems, partial fractions or Chinese poetry? No, they wouldn’t. And if you repeat this exercise with any single person in the world, rich or successful, you’ll end up with the same finding – they all started with no knowledge of anything. Whether you are Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Tony Robbins, George Clooney or Brad Pitt, there was a point in the past when you knew absolutely nothing about your craft and you had to learn from scratch.

Suddenly, it doesn’t matter what others have or don’t have. Because everyone starts from a place of nothing. Everything is acquired through time, whether through formal or informal education, environmental reinforcement, etc. Regardless of whether you have something or nothing now, as long as you take the steps to put the pieces in place, you will get to where you want to be.

You Have Something

The second point I want to make is to invite you to rethink the whole notion that you have nothing. Because every time you think you have nothing, it’s likely the opposite. It’s the whole proverbial notion of whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. There is always something there. The pessimist sees the glass as half empty; the optimist sees the glass as half full. Have you ever considered that the glass has always been all full though? The bottom half is filled with water, and the top half is filled with air.

If you don’t see what you have today as something, that’s because you’ve been living in your own reality for too long, to the point where you take what you have for granted. You’ve developed a mental blindness to the value of what you have. It’s a matter of retuning yourself to recognize those things you have.

Try mentally swapping positions with someone who is in an objectively worse-off situation than you. It can be someone who just got robbed, someone who just got retrenched, a jail convict sentenced for life behind bars, a patient suffering from a terminal illness with a month to live, a vegetable, a person with anterograde amnesia, a starving beggar with no home to go to, a bankrupt, someone with heavy debt to clear, a famine stricken child in Africa, etc – the possibilities are endless. How would you feel? What would you become? How would life be like compared to what you have now?

Suddenly, it’s apparent that there are so many things in your life you didn’t realize. All the things you have from before that you saw as nothing suddenly became something. Things like your 5 senses, your health, your freedom, your livelihood, your rights, your friends, your family, your knowledge, your skill sets, your abilities, your intellect, and many more. All these are real things, real tools to your possessions. They are assets beyond any doubt. There are many people who wish they have these, yet they don’t. Realize it or not, you are in a better off place than many people in this world. And focusing on the things that you do have now and making the best out of them are surer ways to move you forward in life than not recognizing them.

Your Problems Are Somethings Too

In fact, everything you have in your life now are all somethings. Including your problems, contrary to what many would think. I know many of you might be thinking – “How can my problems be of value? They weigh me down. I wish I can get rid of all my life problems It’s weighing me down. I wish I can get rid of immediately.”

There was something I read in Think and Grow Rich 2 years ago which I want to share with you. Many people always see their problems as liabilities, and things they have as assets. However, have you ever realized your problems are actually your assets too – in fact, bigger assets than you realize? Because for every problem you face, hundred thousands of people around the world are probably facing it too. And if your problem is so huge that it’s weighing on you, imagine how many other people would want to know the solution to this problem. Who is a better person to discover the solution than you, the person who is in the middle of it all?

Once you find the solution, imagine how invaluable this solution will be to others who have the same problem. It’s a huge asset! Your problems are really your assets in disguise. They are your hidden gold mines waiting to be mined and converted into gold. In fact, you should be grateful you have such problems because they are your keys to abundance. It’s with these problems that you become a richer person (not just in physical wealth, but also emotionally, mentally and spiritually).

I was brought up in a family where money was not abundant. I wouldn’t exactly say my family was poor, but we were not well-off. Working class would be an appropriate classification. Since young, we lived in regular HDB flats and didn’t own any cars (Cars are considered a luxury item in Singapore, unlike the States where it is a staple). My parents worked very hard to put me and my brother through education. (That said, they dote on me a lot – They almost always bought me everything that I wanted too, so I never felt like I was in lack or anything like that.) When I was a young kid, I had classmates whose parents were very well off. They lived in bungalows, semi-detached, etc and many of them had cars. At that time, I wondered why my family was not as rich as others’. I wished my family was more well off.

Then one day, I came across this quote, along the lines of “Those who are rich will never know how expensive it is to be poor”. It was then that I realized that it was a blessing that I was where I was, because I could never appreciate wealth (of any kind) the same way if I already had it to begin with. That was one of the times when I had a paradigm shift about my reality. I’m not saying that others who are already born materially rich can’t appreciate their wealth, but they would never do so the same way compared to if they never had it in the beginning (this is the same for every other situation in life too). It’s from a place of lack that you truly appreciate something when you get it. It’s also from your problems that you grow and become better, just like how your disappointments make you a stronger person.

And Then There Is Something Else

And then even beyond your problems/liabilities, assets/possessions, knowledge, abilities, skill sets, there is something else that you have. Even if you have nothing to your name, even if you’ve been declared bankrupt, even if you’re in $100 million dollars in debt, even if everyone has left you in this world, even if you are to lose your job/status/knowledge/achievements, even if your life has been decimated, you still have something.

You have you.

And that, I’m telling you, is the most powerful thing you can ever have in your entire life. It’s the one thing you ever need in your entire life to create the life you want. Because you have more power in you to create than anything else in the world that you can acquire. It doesn’t matter whether you are $100 million dollars in debt; you have the ability to reverse it and earn more. (Which was exactly what Donald Trump did – He was $0.9 billion dollars in debt in the 1990s and reversed that in a year, to emerge a billionaire with $3b in net worth – 3 times richer than his highest point of wealth before his debt.) It doesn’t matter if you have no friends now to speak of; you have the ability to get out there and make new friends. It doesn’t matter if you have nothing now, because you can get out there and create something for yourself. Whatever static object/asset you can acquire is nothing in comparison with you – the dynamic being who is able to create, synthesize thoughts, break down problems, form solutions, build structures, move mountains, and more.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have the answers now, because you have the eternal connection with your subconsciousness, which has all the answers you need. You also have the unlimited potential and capacity to do whatever you want.

When I started this blog in Dec ’08 (less than 2 years ago), I had nothing (so to speak). I had quit my job, I had no income; I was a nobody as far as the personal development world was concerned, I had no domains, no websites, no hosting, I had no idea what Twitter was or any of the jazzy Web 2.0 social media for that matter, no knowledge of the workings of the blogosphere; I had no experience in creating a personal development blog and I had never written a personal development article in my entire life. I had never done life coaching, didn’t know what life coaching was; I had never trained before, I had never spoken in a workshop or seminar; I never read personal development books nor had interest in them; I had no idea who was who in the personal development circle/community nor was I in the loop of happenings in the area.

Yet did it matter? No, it didn’t. All these were absolutely irrelevant in whether I was going to achieve my dreams. The point was that this was (and is) my passion; This was my dream. I knew that as long as I put my whole self into achieving the goal, I would achieve the goal. It didn’t matter what I had or what I didn’t have. If there was something I had that could help to achieve the goal – then great, I would leverage on it to achieve the goal. If there was nothing, then sure, I would just figure out how to get it, or if it wass not possible to get it – create it myself. Everything else was just riff-raff, peripheral nothings that played no role whatsoever in the outcome (achieving my dreams). And while everyone was expressing fear about my situation and how it was risky and what not, these were more like noise to my ears. Their fears were more projections of themselves than of my situation. In my mind, it was starkly clear. The outcome was fixed. The question was merely how to get there.

Today after less than 2 years, TPEBlog has over 200k page views/month, is one of the top 25 personal development blogs in the world (by subscriber base) with over 7,000 subscribers – and we’re growing stronger every day. I have received nearly 20 media coverages in over 10 prominent media/press outlets, including CNN, Asia One, Today and 938 Live Radio. I’m a personal coach to very smart and talented people from different walks of life, whether in their 20s, 30s, 40s or teens, helping them to achieve success in their lives. My posts have been featured in the biggest personal development blogs online, including Lifehack.org, DumbLittleMan and Zen Habits (top 25 blogs in the world as rated by Time Magazine). Last month I just launched The Personal Excellence Book, exceeding pre-sales in just the 1st hour. (If you haven’t gotten the book, you really should – Check out this honest, in-depth review by reader Bailey who shares how he boosted his business revenue by 30% in just 2 weeks after he bought the book). I have bigger goals for TPEB/TSOPE in the next few years to come, and I’m excited to see them unfold.

Did it matter whether I had something or nothing in the beginning? No, it didn’t. Again, it’s irrelevant. Whatever it is that you have or don’t have now doesn’t matter. The outcome is fixed. Having something or nothing only affects how and what needs to be done to achieve your desired end outcome, but not the end outcome itself.

Focus on What You Want, not What You Have Now

If we always base our decisions on what we have or don’t have in this moment, we’re never going to get far. Because we’re limiting ourselves based on our history. You become a function of your past. You become a shadow of your past. That’s just surrendering yourself to what you had in the past, which is a very disempowering way to live. It merely serves to reinforce the status quo. Your current state is not a determinant of who you can be or what you can have. Remember, you have unlimited power in you. Focus on your WHAT, not your HOW.

Now if you instead, focus on what you want, what you really want, that’s a whole lot more empowering manner to live. What do you want in your life? Identify what you want, figure out your strategy and your plan, then get there. My personal 5-step ESPER goal achievement series will help. When you’re inspired by a vision that drives you, you reach that goal no matter what. Your obstacles are only what you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Pick the skills, learn them, put in your 10,000 hours and more, and you’ll be there faster than you realize.

Everyone starts from somewhere. It doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have now. It’s more important that you get clear on what you want and move towards there.

The interesting thing is, when you start doing that, you’ll realize you had a lot of things all along. All of a sudden, the past skillsets that you acquired comes in handy. Your past knowledge becomes applicable. People you knew before fall into place one way or another to aid you. And even if you don’t, as I mentioned earlier, it’s a matter of creating the connections to drive you forward.

All the best in achieving your goals and dreams and let me know how it goes .

25 Most Inspirational Songs of All Time

Celes — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:56:58 +0000

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Hi Celes, thank you for this post on movies. A great way to share/discover great inspirational movies. If I may request, can we have a post for list of most inspiring songs? – Rajesh G

Last month, I wrote a post with movies with important life lessons for us to take away. The response from all of you blew me away. 70 comments and nearly 200 RTs/shares for the post alone! Thank you everyone for sharing YOUR favorite, inspirational movies in the comments. For the other readers, be sure to check out the post as well as the comments for more amazing movies with life lessons to learn.

Today’s post is on the most inspiring songs (Thanks Rajesh for the wonderful suggestion!). Songs that motivate us and trigger us into action; Songs that remind us on the beauty of life; Songs that lift us up when we’re down; Songs that remind us of who we are. With hundreds and thousands of great songs out there, it is challenging to narrow it down the list.

In the end, I selected the top 25 inspiring songs of all time for this post and I hope you like them. All these songs have 1 thing in common – they inspire us to become better people. I’ve picked videos that come with lyrics where possible. Special thanks to the readers who shared their picks on Twitter and Facebook – you may find your fav songs in the list .

This post has videos embedded which are probably not viewable via email. If you’re reading this via your email client, read the full blog post here.

Are you ready? Up your volume and switch to stereo mode before you continue on. You can have the songs playing in the background and get on with your regular internet surfing while listening. Be sure to bookmark this page – the songs are classics to be listened to over and over again, no matter how old we are.

Here they are – 25 most inspiring songs of all time:

25. Somewhere Over The Rainbow

This is an all-time classic. The song speaks of this magical place over the rainbow where things will be better. It refers to this other, better place compared to where we are now. If you feel down and out, and when things seem tough, this song will lift you up. Just remember that the better place isn’t “somewhere out there”, but here where we are. It’s up to us to make the best of what we have .

The song was originally sung by Judy Garland in 1939 (Wizard of Oz) and has since been resung by many people. The version below is by Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole. His soothing vocals makes it a very peaceful and calming experience listening to the song.

[ by Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole | Lyrics | Get the album ]

24. Chariots of Fire

Chariots is an instrumental theme often used as the theme song for sporting events. It was recorded in 1981 for the film Chariots of Fire. Listen to it and see if you don’t recognize it . The build up of the tunes throughout the song makes you feel invigorated just sitting and listening to it. This is a great pick me up that I use for some of my workshops.

[ by Vangelis | Get the album ]

23. It’s a Beautiful Day

No matter how bad your day may be, there is always something beautiful happening. This song reminds us that every day is a beautiful day by itself .

[ by U2 | Lyrics | Get the album ]

22. Walking On Sunshine

Quite possibly the happiest song ever! The upbeat tunes of the song brings a smile to anyone just by listening to it. Make sure to dance along as you listen to the song!

Some of you might recognize this as the opening of The Celes Show earlier this year. I’ve put the project on hiatus for the time being as I focus on blog development.

[ by Kartina & The Waves | Lyrics | Get the album ]

21. What a Wonderful World

One of the greatest hits of all time, this beautiful song reminds us to appreciate the beauty of everyday life. According to wiki, the song was “intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States”. It also has a “hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to look forward to.” Everything in life is a miracle. Let’s appreciate and give gratitude to all these things we have with us today .

[ by Louis Armstrong | Lyrics | Get the album ]

20. It’s My Life

It’s My Life was a huge hit when it came out in 2000 and remains a huge hit today. It’s all about personal empowerment, taking control of your life and being who you are because you only get to live once. As one of the lyrics say, “It’s my life… It’s now or never”.

Whose life are you living right now? When are you ready to start living your life? You only have one life – you’re not going to live forever. It’s either you start living it now or you’ll never live it. Stop waiting for a “tomorrow” or “next time”. It’s now.

[ by Bon Jovi | Lyrics | Get the album ]

19. That’s What Friends Are For

This is an all-time classic that has been sung and resung by many different artists. It’s about the beauty of friendship and how we can always count on each other no matter what happens, good times or bad times. That’s after all, what friends are for . Very, very beautiful song.

[ by Dionne Warwick, Steve Wonder, Gladys Knight & Elton John | Lyrics | Get the album ]

18. You Get What You Give

This is one of my favorite songs and also recommended by reader Ashwin Gopal. It’s the ending theme of Click (one of my favorite inspiring movies) which is how I first knew about it. This song is an international hit and has been played over 1 million times on US radio.

At its core, this song is about being true to yourself in a world where everyone tries to be someone he/she isn’t. Don’t you ever, ever give up on yourself or your dreams, because you have what it takes to achieve what you want.

[ by New Radicals | Lyrics | Get the album ]

17. Return To Innocence

An extremely strong and powerful song that invokes powerful emotions. This song reminds you to be yourself. Don’t afraid to show your emotions – whether it’s perceived as being weak, strong, emotional, unacceptable, etc. Denying them is just denying who you are. While others may see revealing your emotions as an act of vulnerability, it’s only by embracing your emotions that you move a step forward towards being who you truly are.

[ by Enigma | Lyrics | Get the album ]

16. Music of My Heart

This is a beautiful song that expresses gratitude to the people who have always been there for us whenever we need them. These people are the ones who made us who and what we are today; who taught us the amazing things in the world and made us bigger than we thought we could. It’s because of them that we can be where we are today. Without them, there can’t be us today.

Who are the people who have helped make you who you are today? Who have always been there when you’re down? Who opened your eyes to the world? Who guided you every step of the way? Where are they now? Have you stopped to thank them for what they have done? Take a moment and let them know how you feel. You owe them as much.

[ by N'Sync and Gloria Estefan | Lyrics | Get the album ]

15. Circle of Life

From The Lion King, one of my top inspiring movies. I get goosebumps whenever I listen to this song. This song tells us the grandiosity of life and where we stand in it. We’re all part of the circle of life – birth, growth, death, rebirth. Death does not signify the end – it’s the start to something new, something greater and bigger than what we’ve seen. It’s a delicate, symbiotic relationship that makes life possible.

[ Music by Elton John and Lyrics by Tim Rice | Lyrics | Get the album ]

14. Heal The World

This is one of the most popular songs by Michael Jackson. It reminds us of our responsibility to care for our world. Every day, there are people suffering and dying out there. Just because we’re not in contact with them doesn’t mean it’s not happening. It’s up to us to care for this world we live in. What can you do today to heal the world out there? It all starts with us.

[ by Michael Jackson | Lyrics | Get the Album ]

13. You Raise Me Up

This is a touching piece that gives tribute to the people who raise us up to become more than who we can be. It was originally released by Secret Garden featuring Brian Kennedy in 2002 and since has been covered over 125 times. I’ve included both the original version below and the version by Josh Groban.

[ by Secret Garden, Vocals by Brian Kennedy | Lyrics | Get the album (by Secret Garden) ]

[ by Josh Groban | Lyrics | Get the album (by Josh Groban) ]

12. True Colors

The first time I heard this song was from an ad from Dove’s campaign for real beauty (which started back in 2006). I was enchanted by the song and the beautiful vocals. I later realized the ad version was a cover (by kids) and the original is by Cyndi Lauper (below).

This song is about not feeling fearful or small and to show who we really to the world. That’s when we reveal our true colors (analogy to the colors of the rainbow). It’s revealing these colors that we reveal our real beauty.

[ by Cyndi Lauper | Lyrics | Get the Album ]

11. When You Believe

This is an amazing song about the power of hope and faith in this world. If there are ever any times when you’re losing hope, hang in there. The miracles you want to create in life comes from first believing in yourself (and others). They couldn’t have chosen better singers for this song too – Whitney and Mariah are undoubtedly two of the best singers ever.

[ By Whitney Housten & Mariah Carey | Lyrics | Get the song ]

10. Win

This is one of my personal favorites and also recommended by reader Kelvin Toh. The song is about overcoming all obstacles and never giving up in life. As long as we keep pushing, keep persisting, we’ll definitely achieve whatever we set out to achieve.

[ by Brian McKnight | Lyrics | Get the song ]

9. You Gotta Want It

Recommended by reader TraveloCafe. Powerful song that will charge you up in the few minutes you listen to it. If you want to get what you want, you have to want it from the bottom of your heart and give all that you can give. As long as you have the burning passion, nothing will be insurmountable.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get any information on this song anywhere other than the youtube link. It’s not listed on Wiki, lyric sites nor Amazon. If you have any info on this, please share in the comments area.

[ by Roberta Gold ]

8. I Will Survive

This song is about how someone became stronger after experiencing a breakup with someone. Today, it’s used as an anthem of female empowerment, gay empowerment and HIV/AIDS awareness. It is one of the most famous disco songs of all time. (From wiki)

[ by Gloria Gaynor | Lyrics | Get the album ]

7. Dare You To Move

This song has different interpretations. It can refer to the part of you who is not doing anything about certain parts of your life. It can refer to the part of you who is in a state of stagnancy. It can refer to the you who is letting a past failure stop you from moving on. Are you ready to stop looking back and finally move forward?

[ by Switchfoot | Lyrics | Get the album ]

6. Never Surrender

I first heard this song when I was watching Meteor Garden (Taiwanese version). I love the key message of this song, which is never to give up no matter how tough the situation may be. Because no matter what happens, no one can ever take away your right to fight. As long as you persevere, nothing’s impossible to achieve.

[ by Corey Hart | Lyrics | Get the album ]

5. Hero

Recommended by reader Abu Sofian and my favorite song too. The song tells you you don’t have to be afraid of who you are. When you feel fearful and lost, look deep inside. The strength to do what you want, and the answers you seek for in life, have always been inside you all along.

There’s always been a hero in your life all along. The hero isn’t anyone else – it’s you.

[ by Mariah Carey | Hero | Get the album ]

4. I Believe I Can Fly

This is the theme song of 1996 movie Space Jam, which is also one of the most inspiring movies. This song is about how there are no goals and dreams that we can’t achieve. If we can see it, we can do it. It all starts with first believing in our ability .

[ by R Kelly | Lyrics | Get the song ]

3. Gonna Fly Now

This is the theme song of Rocky, also listed as one of the inspirational movies. To quote wiki,

Released in 1976 with the movie Rocky, the song became part of American popular culture after main character Rocky Balboa completed his daily training regimen while the song played. The song finishes as Rocky completes his famous run up the “Rocky Steps” of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and raises his arms in a victory pose.

I love this song . It’s not really a song as much as it’s a tune – there are only 9 lines of lyrics. It’s a powerful one at that – listen and see if it doesn’t get you all drummed up .

[ by Bill Conti | Lyrics | Get the Rocky Score ]

2. Reach

Reach is the official theme song for 1996 Olympics. This song is about doing our very best for the dreams. Don’t be afraid to reach out and give your everything. It’s only when you put your heart and soul into your goals that you live your life to the fullest.

[ by Gloria Estefan | Lyrics | Get the album ]

1. Eye of The Tiger

This is the one of the tracks for Rocky III and hands down one of the top motivational songs of all time. Not only is it my favorite, readers Dipal E and Lica Sever also give their top recommendation. Here’s an explanation on why the song is titled “Eye of The Tiger”:

At first, we wondered if calling it ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ was too obvious. The initial draft of the song, we started with ‘It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the thrill of the fight, rising up to the spirit of our rival, and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night, and it all comes down to survival.’ We were going to call the song ‘Survival.’ In the rhyme scheme, you can tell we had set up ‘rival’ to rhyme with ‘survival.’ At the end of the day, we said, ‘Are we nuts?’ That hook is so strong, and ‘rival’ doesn’t have to be a perfect rhyme with the word ‘tiger.’ We made the right choice and went with ‘Eye Of The Tiger. – Jim Peterik, co-writer of the song (Wikiepedia)

The best way to listen to this song is to have your volumes at full blast. If it doesn’t charge you up into action, I don’t know what will! I used to use it in my personal development workshops to drum participants into action.

[ By Survivor | Lyrics | Get the album ]

What Are Your Favorite Inspirational Songs?

Are any of your favorite inspirational songs listed above? If so, which are they? Why do you like them?

Do you have any favorites that are not listed? If so, please share in the comments area. To make your comment more meaningful for other readers, please include the

Song title
Why you like this song / What it means to you
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Thanks! I look forward to hearing about your favorite songs.

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