Podcast Episode 259 - Ordinary to Extraordinary: Unraveling the Secrets of Living an Extraordinary Life Part 3
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When you make a mistake, do you say things like, “dumbing, moron or idiot?
When you’re feeling down, what’s your body doing? Is it full of energy or about to drag you down?
Have you ever felt like when it rains, it pours?
It’s part 3 of Ordinary to Extraordinary: Unraveling the Secrets of Living an Extraordinary Life. Are you ready for the secrets that control the quality of your life?
Today is for you if…
If you’re tired of life, drag you around where you didn’t plan to go.
If you desire to experience a greater quality of life than what you’re experiencing right now.
If you’re ready to take control of your life, you can take it from ordinary to extraordinary.
What controls and determines the quality of our lives?
Meaning - the meaning we assign to an event.
Emotion - the emotion that meaning creates.
The meaning we assign to what happens to us creates an emotion. Then, the feeling creates the quality of our lives.
Whatever you want in life, you want because of a feeling that you believe you’ll get when you get what you actually get what you want.
Did you know you can have that feeling right now if you want? You just need to make some simple shifts to create the emotions you want and live in an extraordinary state of life.
Three Patterns that Create Any Emotion:
1. Physiology
That just means what you do with your body.
Motion creates Emotion. Whatever you’re feeling right now relates to how you use your body. This includes your face.
To live an extraordinary life, you must be intentional with your physiology.
2. Focus
Your focus is your reality, even if it’s not really reality.
Whatever you’re focusing on, you’ll eventually believe.
“Where focus goes energy flows.” – Tony Robbins
Is your energy flowing where it’ll lead you to an extraordinary life?
3. Language/Meaning
Belief is a phrase you say over and over again until you believe it.
How many of you have said something like, when something goes wrong:
I’m broken
I’m stupid
I’m a no good nothing blankety-blank
I’m an idiot
We’ve used this in the negative for so long that we don’t realize it’s us that caused those briefs.
Certain words create different meanings and change the way you feel.
I made a mistake.
I’m wrong.
I’m an IDIOT.
There’s a significant difference in the feeling those words create.
Change your words and change your life.
Create Intentional Incantations: Incantations are like a mantra. They’re repeated phrases with emotional intensity added.
Use positive incantations that support your extraordinary life and do it with emotional intensity.
When you align your physiology, focus and language with what God says, you’re not just creating an extraordinary life to live one day; you shift your emotions to start living it right now.
Homework:
1. What is your body doing?
Notice what your body is doing when you’re feeling down.
Notice what you’re body is doing when you’re feeling happy.
Pick two to three changes you can make to your physiology when feeling down.
2. Where is your mind focused?
Is your mind focused on where you want to go?
Is it helping you create beliefs that will support your extraordinary life?
If not, shift your focus.
3. What language are you using regularly?
What negative incantations do you use without realizing it?
What new positive incantation can you create and use instead?
One final thought on living an extraordinary life–look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Life is full of ordinary moments. Live them, love them, experience them in the moment.
That, my friends, is how you can take your life from ordinary to extraordinary.
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