29.5306 Potential: Recent Episodes
Blake Hardy
This podcast is dedicated to help enable you to become the best version of yourself possible - To recognize who you are, and uncover why you do what you do - To grow your dreams - To discover each trial in life is the fuel to help make you better - To find what you value most - To synergize what is within you with the loved ones that surround you - To find the courage to take action - To be aware of who your best self is and become that person - We believe when you move yourself from mindlessness, to consciousness, to complete self-awareness is the key to unlocking your fullest potential!
Learn 8 things you can do to find out who you are. And then repeat the 8 things for 29 days in a row. By the 29th day, you will have a much more clear idea of who you are.
What is your life purpose? How do you figure out what you are destined for? A very simple and powerful idea to find the happier life we all seek.
Why do we tell ourselves it takes hard work to succeed? Find out what Napoleon Hill's 13 principles of success are and learn why.
A quick idea about motivation . . .Can motivational speakers actually provide motivation?
A short discussion on how to exercise willpower - and what you can do to get better at using it.
In honor of making it to 24 days in a row . . . I thought I would talk about your next 24 hours.
Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh co-authored a book back in 2008 about fulfilling your childhood dreams. So what do Eeyore and Tigger have to do with any of this? Listen to find out.
What allows you to overcome your doubt, worries and fears. Faith of course. But blind faith is typically useless. How do you suppose you acquire faith?
Shame, blame, guilt & resentment - What a hard way to live, it is the same game as living in the past.
A quick discussion about why the right mentor is so valuable, but there is more to the equation than that. Knowing how to do something won't complete the tasks required to get you where you want to be.
Where the modern day productivity list came from? Good question! This very well MIGHT be where it came from.
What in the world are Cybernetics? . . . and what in the world does it have to do with self image?
Desire and Disciple are the two halves to a whole that allow for a breakthrough, but what really is desire? . . . and what type of discipline is required?
Expectation works out every time - just not exactly the way you think it will. How strong is your faith and expectation for you receiving the good you truly want? Have you let external voices beat down your dreams and expectations into failed hopes? This recording addresses some these ideas with changing your expectations.
How good are you at making excuses? Most of us have gotten really good at it! Fortunately we can eliminate this and by looking at our current daily routines and creating a new life by outlining what we want our new day to look like. Applying this simply principle with push you closer to the person you really want to become.
Everyone experiences adversity. How do you deal with it? In this recording I relate how your relationship with money can help your life attitude. I use Ken Honda's idea to leverage a radical shift in attitude towards life.
The biggest thing that stops us from achieving is not getting started in the first place. The simple action of physical movement towards an objective has magic in it. I found the Steve Job's commencement speech and I play the famous quote "You can only connect the dots looking backwards" Action is gets us past most of our doubts - the simple act of taking action can work miracles in our mind.
Decision making and commitment are related to thinking, being creative, using your imagination, and concentration. These are all mental faculties that can be practiced like anything else in life. If you DECIDE NOT to practice these mental activities, you will watch your dreams slowly disappear.
Day 10 our of 29.5306! More than a third the way there. Remaining committed to who you want to become is among the hardest thing we will endure of the process. Our focus can either be on our problems or our solutions. Listen for some good ideas on how you can get closer to the better version of yourself!
In order to find the things you truly want in life will require your willingness to shut out the noise of the world and simply listen to your imagination. We live in a world where we're constantly bombarded by advertising, media, TV programs, Youtube and even our closest friends and family telling us what we should want and who we need to be.
Our choices greatly impact everything in our lives including the people we interact with everyday, good or bad. Taking responsibility for everything is vital. Yes! Everything is your fault. As absurd as that may sound, you'll notice a big difference in your happiness, and wellbeing the moment you take responsibility for everything!
Your chief aim in life, the one big goal you think about non-stop will ultimately point you where you want to go. Is it really that simple? Well . . . No. Find out why our fears prevent us from having the faith to get where we want to be in life. What is one of the greatest tricks to push past all the obstacles that have prevented us from progress?
Bruce Lee has become one of my favorite characters in history, perhaps the greatest martial artist that has ever lived. He was also a great teacher. Bruce Lee was a student of Napoleon Hill and he used the "Definite Chief Aim" idea to accomplish a lot of his goals. Perhaps my favorite Bruce Lee quote is "never fear the man that has practiced 10,000 different kicks one time, you should fear the man that practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Of the 147 Delphic Maxims only three were inscribed on a column in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: Know Thyself - Nothing in Excess & Surety Brings Ruin. (In ancient Greece - Delphi was the sanctuary and home to the famous oracle of Apollo which gave cryptic predictions and guidance to both city-states and individuals) Today I focus on the first one - Know Thyself - This is a shortened version of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I imagine there are some errors in the allegory because I am taking some creative liberties with telling it. I believe the point of the Allegory is essentially - When you get feedback that you can’t do something, just remember, that feedback you get is not a reflection of your potential as you as a person. It’s only a reflection of your current mental conditioning.
When you think of excellence - do you think of perfection? I used to think they were about the same thing. Excellence requires commitment. It requires you have a solid idea of where you are wanting to go. It also requires and honest discussion with yourself about what things are holding you back. It is requires keen self awareness and maybe admitting we we may be stuck in a world of things that are not real. Breaking out of that world requires mental and psychological adjustments and learn to regard the adversities, circumstances, and conditions in your life . . . and perhaps a teaser discussion about Plato.
Staying in our comfort zone is merely settling for the person we are today. Unfortunately without continued growth, the comfort zone lulls you into a the lie that everything is ok. Beware of your comfort zone. The danger of a comfort zone is that it isn't painful, and it might even feel good. Being in a comfort zone is often interpreted to mean it is a good place to be. I believe that a comfort zone is precisely the thing that holds people back from real growth, real accomplishment and what could be a potentially exciting and rewarding future.
I imagine many people like myself have begun a number of projects in the past only to fall short for whatever reason. When we were born into this world, everyone of us . . .(wherever you are from in the world) was willing to fearlessly DO or try ANYTHING . . . As we grew we were told the many things we couldn't do, and in most cases we believed what we were taught. The main psychological reason that causes us NOT to get what we want in life is because of the unique family and social situation we were born into. Before we adopted our cultural, sociological and religious beliefs, we . . . (as we grew and learned) adopted many limitations by the environment we were raised in.
This is my audio journal of a self-challenge. For 29 and a half days I am committing to do a new podcast each day and want to invite whoever else chooses to join me. For the next month I will attempt to create the new habit of starting a new company from scratch. It will be overwhelming. There will be challenges and set-backs. I will push forward as best I know how. The purpose of this podcast is to document my very best attempt to become the best version of myself, and in turn I hope to inspire a few others along the way.