One Step… Two Steps… Three…

If you put one foot in front of the other and repeat, you will get closer. If you continue repeating, you will get to where you want to go. No magic. No hoping, wishing or dreaming. This is a plain and simple fact. Everybody knows this.


Why is it so difficult for so many to use this very same understanding in relation to their goals in life? If you take even the tiniest steps towards your goals, you will get there, if you persist. It is often stated the hardest part is the beginning. It doesn’t really have to be, but it is the psychological stumbling block for many.


Your dream may seem so far away when you are about to begin. Think of it this way: If it is going to take you five years, so what? Those five years are going to pass anyway. Why not make the most of those five years? What will happen if you don’t? You will probably not be much different than you are now. But if you begin taking those steps and continue taking them, you will definitely be in a different place in five years.


Whether you make your goal in those five years, is really not the most important issue at stake. Even if you don’t make it to your goal, if you have been taking those steps, you will definitely feel better about yourself. You will definitely be closer at the very least.


Keep your end goal in mind always, but don’t make the mistake of basing your present happiness on how far you have to go. Base it on the FACT that you are going! So long as you are going, you are growing. Even if during your journey something happens to make you change your ultimate goal, you will have as a part of your experience the knowledge that you can move forward.


If you don’t know exactly how to get to where you want to go, know that this knowledge was lacking in almost every case of great achievement. You don’t have to know the details up front. All you really need to know is the general direction that you wish to go. As you begin moving in that direction, you will see signs to guide you. This is called course correction, and it is a normal part of the journey.


Take pride in your progress, no matter how little it seems to be. When you do take pride in this, you will be expressing gratitude. And gratitude is the accelerant that will speed your progress. Reward yourself, but maintain your focus always on the desired end result. Don’t fret or worry about anything.


Trust in the basic formula we began this post with: One foot in front of the other will get you where you want to go.


You will probably notice that your progress will naturally feel as if it is speeding up as you near your target. Be ready for this and don’t allow yourself to freak out. Remember this was what you wanted from the beginning. Be bold and confident. This is not the time to be second guessing yourself. If you made it this far, you have to know you are ready to move further along.


You were born to advance, to grow. This is the essence of who you are. Get to know this side of you that you may have forgotten about since early childhood. The funny thing is, when you regain contact with this innate part of you, you will also feel the regained energy of youth. Now this alone should be enough to inspire anyone to go for their dreams.


Have fun along the way, and let me know how you’re doing!



Jeffrey Brandt

Author of Close Your Eyes to Find Your Way: A Guide to Discovering Your Higher Self.










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What if I don't reach my goals?

Even if I don’t reach all of my goals in life, I can honestly say life itself is a wonderful experience. I don’t see in terms of success or failure as most would define or recognize it. I see the experience in and of itself as success.



Everything we set out to do will bring some result. That result may not always be the same result we had originally hoped for but there is a result. It is how we choose to view this result, as something of value or otherwise that determines whether we would call it success or failure.


With this point of view, any experience can be seen as successful. We may gain knowledge, experience or wisdom. This, I find to have a more lasting value than the dollars, which would definitely be nice to have but not necessarily my primary objective in life. My goal, as anybody’s, is only to have security.


Many like to believe that money is security, but what do they do when they do have money? They immediately look to experience; what new experiences can they partake in now that they have the money to use? Personally, I don’t feel I have ever lacked in experiencing new and different things in my life and I have never been what I would consider to be wealthy.


I guess what I am trying to say is relax, and enjoy the journey. Don’t put your life on hold waiting to enjoy the arrival to your ultimate destination. The arrival only lasts a moment and it’s gone. There is much more to see and do along the way and much more to enjoy, if you truly live each moment along the way.


Self-improvement is the mile marker of life. It lets you know how far you have come along. This is the key to feeling secure. Every new experience in life is an opportunity to improve ourselves. Happiness is not something to achieve in life. Life is something we achieve in happiness.


If it were up to me to create one law that would take the place of all laws, it would have to be one simple word:



Love



Love others. Love yourself. Love life or God. Love every moment, every experience. Just, love. That’s all.


If I could give one gift to anybody, it would have to be the gift of faith. Faith can answer all prayers. Faith can change lives. If we believe in anything long enough and strongly enough, we will attain it. Have no doubt.


There are so many things in life that I want. Most anything in life, I may have. But this doesn’t really matter to me because I have all that I need, and that is faith. When I speak of having faith, what I am trying to convey is a most complete feeling of freedom. I want as much as anybody, if not more. However, I am able to separate myself from that which I possess. I see my life as a learning experience.


Given what I know now, I look back on my life and see that there are many things I would like to have done differently. But I have no regrets for doing those things the way I did. I didn’t lose anything in doing these things the way I did. They only resulted in ways I didn’t necessarily expect or desire. But I gained experience of things I may not have had, had I gone a different way. That is the essence of life for me.


I have never felt of myself as a failure, simply because I have learned from those experiences. By learning from our experiences we retain a lesson that cannot be taken from us. Use your experiences, both good and bad, to provide for your future, and you succeed. You will only better the quality of your existence. Your standing with others can benefit with good experiences. Your self-esteem or your character is the benefactor with not-so-good experiences, providing you take to heart the lesson therein.


Freedom is feeling good about your self. It is, knowing you are not a slave to your emotions, which can be self-destructive. You can be happy, in spite of your present situation or experience. This, I believe is the essence of the third Truth. That is the Truth of Religion, knowing your purpose.




Jeffrey brandt
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The best time ever

Whether your goal is to make a million dollars, to lose those extra pounds, take a dream vacation, or buy a new car, your general attitude in life is the key to getting you there faster. You’ve got to be in a positive flow, predominantly. What this means is you’ve got to be happy, even excited most of the time.


Your positive energy combines better with the positive energy of the universe. Everything that is in harmony with your impulses of thought and emotions combines with your energy. What you put out will return, and it returns in greater abundance than what you sent out. Keep this in mind.


If you’re coming from a hard place, meaning your general level of animation is not very animated, I can give you a technique that tends to work wonders for many. It has to do with the cycles of consciousness.


Dreams, like everything in life seem to be cyclical. A dream precedes creation. From the dream, an idea surges. Ideas are opportunities. If we act on these opportunities, we create. With every act of creation, there is an explosion of energy. Ask any musician, writer, or inventor. He or she will tell you these moments are the most intense moments of life.


There is an incredible satisfaction that comes with experiencing something new. Our interest is sparked, and we begin using this newfound energy. As we assimilate what is new, we begin to feel comfortable in this new level of existence; and the energy begins once again to dissipate. As the energy dissipates, we begin to dream anew. And the cycle repeats.


This cycle is the same for eating, drinking, breathing, or sleeping. We need to eat, drink, breathe, and sleep. We also need to dream. Each of these cycles, of which there are seven, expresses a different level of the vibration of life.



Existence:


We are conscious beings. We are conscious and we are curious. We are the same as all living creatures in this respect. The plant grows toward the light. A dog arranges a comfortable place to lie down. We are present in more than just the physical world. We are all aware of our world of thought. We dwell in these worlds simultaneously.


It is important to maintain an awareness of your thoughts, as they control your essential way of being. Two people may have the exact same physical experience while they experience it in completely different ways. Understand this is a choice.



Eating:


Eating is the most basic level of vibration after existence. It is the most physical of them all. It is communion with the earth as much as is mere existence. This is the basis of sustaining physical existence. How well one eats is clearly reflected in his or her body.


Everything we consume is filled with vital energy. The better the food, the higher is its vibratory nature. Raw fruits and vegetables vibrate at the highest levels, while processed foods vibrate at much lower levels.



Drinking:


Water is fluid and promotes fluency of life as it animates us. As with food, the more natural it is the better. Plain water is better than the many sugary juices available in the market. Bottled water is usually better than tap water. Distilled is better than bottled. The natural water we find in fruits and vegetables is the best of all.



Breathing:


Breathing connects the physical with the spiritual. This is the force that transforms our experiences. Proper breathing can alleviate fear, depression, or anger. During an exam, breathing well can help us to recall information. Proper posture facilitates the mechanics of breathing.



Sleeping:


This is what clears the mind and promotes synchronicity of the body and mind. Proper sleep keeps us sane and gives us the ability to solve our problems. Also it is vital to strengthen the immune system.



Dreaming:


Everything new begins in dreaming. Inspiration finds a home in dreaming. Inspiration is the force of optimism. It is the force to go on to better things. Frustrate this inspiration and you kill off the life force within the creative type. For this reason, suicide and insanity rates are much higher in people who thrive on creativity: Artists, musicians, writers, and the like. This would include those who are lonely and are only dreaming of finding a significant other. Dreaming is only one step away from Holy Communion.



Holy Communion:


Holy Communion is a direct connection with the greatest creative force of all, that which we may refer to as God. In this state of vibration, there are no surprises and no questions. Everything we experience in this state is accepted as it is. Everything is known. We recognize the oneness we are with the world. It is the most comfortable state of existence we may know.


This is the goal of the yogi, the philosopher, and the saint. It is a state that every soul has experienced at one time or another. Although usually this state lasts only an instant, it can have a profound impact on our view of the world. It even changes the course of our lives. Without exception, this view is one of peace and calm.


Understand these cycles, and determine where you are in each, to help lift yourself when you are down. The technique is simply this: Focus on these cycles and bring each one to an active state. Contemplate your existence. Eat well, something natural, and know that it is building your body strong. Drink pure water and sense the difference it makes in your animation. Take a few deep abdominal breaths to energize or to calm down. It works equally well for either result. Lie down and take a cat nap, no more than twenty minutes. Get inspired with a new idea, and play with it in your imagination.


And finally, meditate or pray on your being connected to all that exists, feel gratitude. Enjoy your journey and be at peace. Life is an amazing experience. The best time ever? Right Now!



Jeffrey Brandt

Author of Close Your Eyes to Find Your Way: A Guide to Discovering Your Higher Self.



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Course Correction

Did you ever think about your actions when you are driving down a long stretch of road that apparently has no curves? The road may be as straight as an arrow, yet how often do you need to adjust your steering? Most people don’t even give this a thought, as driving has become almost totally automatic. Think about it the next time you are driving and notice how many slight adjustments you are making on a constant basis.


Flying is the same. A typical flight from point A to point B may appear to be a straight course, but the pilot (or autopilot) must make continuous adjustments to arrive at the correct destination. I’ve heard it said that an airplane is off course as much as ninety percent of the flight. Yet, it always seems to arrive on target and on time.


Consider this well when you are trying to reach a certain goal and you begin to feel you are making little or no headway. As long as you are moving forward in the general direction of your determined goal, and you are making your course corrections as needed, you will arrive.


Will you arrive later today or tomorrow? That I don’t know, but I do know that moving ahead and correcting your course is an obvious plan to succeed. The important thing to remember is that action is necessary. And it must be action that will move you in that direction.


Large goals may be a while in coming, and there may be need for numerous course corrections. This is where your perseverance comes in very handily. Don’t give up hope. Keep plugging away, enjoying your journey. Reward yourself for the little successes en route.

Two heads are better than one

It may help also to have a partner along the way that can help give you objective feedback as to what actions to take. This partner can also be of use to hold you accountable that you are actually taking the necessary action and not simply talking about it.


One very important point about choosing a partner in your venture, you want it to be someone who is of the mindset to inspire confidence. Sometimes we need someone to believe in us even as we ourselves may be in doubt. So more than just accountability and feedback, we want a coach. Realistic yes, but you want someone who will push your limits just a bit, someone who will make you stretch. After all, isn’t that the primary reason for our wanting to reach a goal, to grow?


So get behind the wheel, or get into the cockpit, take the wheel, or take the joy stick, hit the gas and go!



Bon Voyage,

Jeffrey Brandt

Author of Close Your Eyes to Find Your Way: A Guide to Discovering Your Higher Self.






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Make your life passionate!

What is your passion? How do you feel when you are participating in your passion? Do you feel passionate? How much do you want to live a better life, to experience more abundance, have better relationships? Are these things that make you feel passionate?


Passion is a wonderful gift to the human condition. It fuels the greatest accomplishments. It breaks down and plows past the most insurmountable obstacles. It lights the way through the darkest of nights. It clears the path of the densest jungle. Passion is the key to achieving your goals quicker, easier than you could ever imagine. In part, because you feel you have achieved your goal even before you have actually achieved it on a physical level.


Did you catch that? You feel as if your goal has already been achieved before the fact. That is to say passion gives you the optimal mindset to achieve your goals. Passion contains all the confidence, belief, energy, and emotion you need. It is like the miracle drug for those who are off course from a life of dismal failure. Add passion and all suddenly becomes well again.



So how do you actually use passion to achieve your goal if your goal to live a life of abundance?




First of all, you have to really know what your passion is. For me, my passion is helping others to reach their goals. You have to find YOUR passion.


Next you have to dive into your passion to learn all you can about it. For me, that meant learning about what the difference is between those who realize their goals from those who don’t. The answer, by the way, is mindset, the way they think. If you think studying and learning something is boring, you haven’t yet found your passion. If you are learning about your passion, you will love learning more and more about it. It will be a continuous venture that absorbs you. Time stands still for you when you are involved with your passion, no matter what you are doing.


Once you learn a certain amount about your passion, the most natural thing in the world to do will be to begin sharing it with others. Sharing, you ask? How does this bring me abundance? In openly and eagerly sharing your passion, you will be attracted to and attract to you people who are in alignment with your passion.


How do you share your passion? You choose the medium that is most in line with who you are. This may be through writing, speaking, creating audio or video, or teaching. What do you charge? Nothing. What? You don’t charge a thing, for now. Why? You are building a following of loyal fans. These people will learn that you really do know your stuff when it comes to your passion. As you transmit your positive energy, they will pick up on this and become hungry for more.


When you get to a certain point again, you will find the depth of your knowledge in your area of expertise to be sufficient to begin offering more than quick simple advice. You will be ready to create a more complete package of the wisdom of your passion.


If you’ve built a good following of hungry, loyal fans, you will easily be in a position to have them asking you to sell them your prime package, whether it be a book, an audio or video course, a seminar, or whatever other means you have for delivering your more intense package.


Notice I didn’t mention anything about trying to sell people on your knowledge here. That was old school. Things have changed. People want to buy what they feel they need, but they don’t want to be told what they need. You have helped them decide for themselves through educating them about your vast storehouse of what interests them. You have created a bond of trust by giving them much for no charge.


If what you give them is valuable and you deliver it with genuine passion, there is no need for the hard selling tactics of yesteryear. You will have already pre-sold them on your brand. You simply make it known that you have this package, whatever it may be, and they will ask YOU how they may get it. This is creating a win-win situation.


You must provide a package that holds real value, of course, but more than this, you want to overwhelm them with the quality of what they receive. This will make them very happy now, and assure that they will want more as you develop more products down the line.


All of this is possible with passion. It is possible only with passion. Without passion, you are trying to live in yesterday’s world, today. Make your life passionate!




If you have noticed I am passionate about this subject, that is because I AM. You might imagine also that I have something to sell you. I will tell you this: You’re right. But, I’m not ready to release it just yet, because as you can probably also imagine, I’m passionate about making it the very best it can be. I want you to be overwhelmed with what you receive.


Keep in touch with this blog or sign up on my [Facebook] fan page to keep informed. What I have coming out very soon is going to absolutely blow you away!





Jeffrey Brandt

Author of Close Your Eyes to Find Your Way: A Guide to Discovering Your Higher Self.





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Do you know how to change your fate?

Someone once asked me why the mind interested me so much. On a certain level I was floored by this question. How could anybody not be interested in the mind? Once I thought about it, however, I understood why someone might ask it. There is a great difference in the population. This difference can be deciphered in how we use this marvelous tool that we all have access to.


There is a great number of people out there who really believe that life is something that happens to us, as if we have little say in the way our lives play out. Of course they will tell you that there are also some things you bring on yourself, but in general, your life is determined by the circumstances you were born into.


When you bring up the fact that there have been and continue to be people who have broken from their natal circumstances and lifted themselves to fame and fortune, they will cite luck or some other influence.


If that were true, why is it that that great majority of lottery winners end up right back where they were prior to winning big? It doesn’t matter how big they win either. Some even end up worse off than they were before.


Those that do work themselves to the top of any given field, typically claim nothing special about them other than an intense drive to succeed and an undying faith that they would someday “make it.” What they say is that anybody has the ability to do this as well.


This brings us to the human mind. It is a fairly well known fact that we are only using a small percentage of our mind’s potential. We have for all practical purposes an unlimited potential awaiting our use. The problem is that we were not given an instruction manual at birth on how to use it. This is something we must pick up along the way in life.


Now where do we pick up this information? Usually we get it from our parents and those closest to us in our daily lives.


With this in mind, it is no wonder our standard of living tends to be about the same as that of our parents. Sure we have many more conveniences, as there exists more as society itself advances. However, besides the cell phones, internet, and all of these gadgets that are simply a part of common life today, we remain about the same.


What changes in the individual who breaks from this paradigm is a definite decision. You must consciously seek to grow through expanding your circle of influence. This is the amazing thing about being alive today. You can reach out to touch and be touched by a class of people you may have had little chance of reaching in an earlier time. I mean to say the class of people you wish to become a part of. You don’t have to settle with what life has handed you.


Perhaps you cannot personally meet them yet, but there are so many platforms out there where you can get close. Think about the number of books, CDs, Videos, programs, blogs, pod casts, Vlogs, membership cites, clubs, subscriptions, etc. all meant to share information, inspiration, advice, and ideas.


Communication is the medium of growth. Use it. Use it to feed your mind a new paradigm, one that allows you to believe anything is possible, because in truth anything is possible!


You are reading this blog for a reason. I’m telling you I am here to serve you in any way I can. Let me know your dreams and I will help you in the best way I can to achieve those dreams. Leave a comment here on this page or click through to the fan page on the right. I promise I will respond to your questions.


Believe in who you are,


Jeffrey Brandt




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Get Passionate!

If I ask you to get passionate about your life, what would be your response? You might ask why. You might ask what there is to get passionate about. You might wonder how you can find passion.





Why get passionate?





Passion is an incredibly powerful elixir for getting things done. It is the adrenaline rush of the spirit. It gets you to jump out of bed in the morning eager to get started with the work ahead of you. It causes time to stand still when you realize hours have passed since you began working on a project. Your energy level seems not to become depleted. It feels good, and real progress is made.





What is there to get passionate about?





Life is meant to be lived with passion. There is no greater reward than knowing that you are contributing to something worthwhile that will have a positive impact on yourself and others. Even more so when that impact stretches beyond your immediate reach of time and space. Every detail of your life can be lived with passion if you understand one vitally important thing.





How can I find passion?



Passion is not something you can simply decide. It must come from inside you. This is because passion is in your core. It is your core, and you must but discover it. There is a word for this. It is called purpose, your purpose, your calling. The great majority of people do not even know what their purpose is in life.



As children we are more open to discover it. By the time we become adults, our lives have become fraught with artificial worries and frustrations limiting beliefs that few of us really know with any specificity what it is we truly want to do with our life. If you are not sure what your purpose is, try this out and see if it helps.





An imaginary game





Imagine for a moment that you have an unlimited amount of money at your disposal. Sound crazy? Stay with me. There is a meaning to all of this. Imagine you no longer have to keep your job. If money were no issue, would you continue working where you do? Chances are you would walk. That’s fine.



Would you like to buy a new car? How about buying several new cars? Go ahead. You have the money, and there’s plenty more where that comes from. Perhaps you would like to buy a house, but you’re not sure where you would like to have this house. Remember you can live anywhere you like. Money is no problem. Go ahead and buy houses in all of your favorite locations. And while you’re at it, a private jet might be nice so you can travel at your leisure.



Now you can probably think about a gazillion toys you would like to have and things you would like to do. Go ahead. Before we get too far along here, I would like you to write out all of the things you want to have and do. Preferably you will fill up the whole sheet, both front and back. If this doesn’t take you long, then I suggest you begin a second sheet.



The idea here is that I want you to continue adding things to this list until it becomes more difficult to think of things to add. I urge you to do this in writing because after a while it may get difficult to remember everything you thought of. And by reading your list you may think of other things to add.



Continue. Continue. Continue. If you keep this up for a good while, you will notice something happening to your list. At first, what you write down will likely be a lot of very materialistic things and activities. This is fine, and I encourage you to exhaust yourself trying to add all of these things you can. I say this because what happens to your list after you have no more you could want in the way of materialistic merchandise and experiences?



If you force yourself to continue writing, you will likely begin to think of other things you really want such as to help others in some altruistic way. Helping out a charity or creating your own charity. Perhaps you would like to have the money to afford learning to write music and record that music. Maybe you would like to spend time writing a great novel or the story of your life. You could even decide to use your time teaching others a thing or two.



What will eventually happen if you actually write out your list is that once you get past the shallow, superficial, egotistical ideas, you will begin to move closer to what your heart really wants. What your heart really wants is for you to fulfill your purpose in life.



This is a great way to help you discover what your purpose is. You have to get past the ego and playing a game of the imagination is a very good way of accomplishing that.



Let me know what results you come up with. I’d be happy to hear from you on this.



Jeffrey Brandt
Author of Close Your Eyes to Find Your Way: A Guide to Discovering Your Higher Self.




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