I grow Healthy Rich People.  That’s pretty awesome!  But it’s the poor and the humble that I really enjoy helping the most.  They are more hungry for change and growth than the comfortable. And it’s really warming and inspiring to watch someone grow their self confidence with one action at a time and over all success in their lives from very challenging scenarios. The poor and humble will express more gratitude than the comfortable and when they change, grow, live, they will give back more than the comfortable because to be totally comfortable is to also be selfish. In a world where over a billion people are starving to death there is no worthy scenario to cease changing and growing.  The poor and the humble is where it’s at!

The poor and humble are more likely to give back more as they create wealth for themselves.  They remember where they came from so they have a tendency to pay their success forward as they achieve their own success.  Remembering where they came from fills them with more gratitude than the comfortable.  There is not much else that turns me off more than a person with good fortune who has no gratitude.  A person who has triumphed over intense challenges is more likely to be extremely grateful.  I actually take at least a minute of time out every day to consciously be grateful for my good fortune.   It’s really important to me to do that.

Triumph over struggles is inspiring!  The bigger the struggle the bigger the triumph the bigger the inspiration for people who need that hope while they go through their own struggles!  The comfortable are too busy being lulled into a state of complacency, perhaps from their job because it’s a paycheck, that they are not doing anything to inspire anybody.

I’m not saying the comfortable are bad people.  They are just in waiting, consciously or more likely sub consciously, for an experience that turns everything on for them.  We all have a trigger that turns on desire.  It just takes the right experience to trigger that desire that turns everything on.  That experience is different for everyone so who knows what that experience will be from person to person!  Welcome ALL experiences including the bad ones because you never know which experiences is going to be the one that turns everything on!   Call it a life changing day because you took down the walls that keeps out both happiness and sadness.

For me one of those experiences was in April of 2006 when my job was off shored to India at no fault of my own.  Up til that point I was lulled into total complacency along with most others who lose their hunger because they have a job that pays the bills.  I wasn’t doing anything to grow to the “next level”.  My entire income was that one income that I didn’t even own so when that one income I had that I didn’t even own was taken away from me along with all my health insurance I had nothing.  It created a very negative devastating emotion that lead to a very POWERFUL positive outcome.  I became the poor, the humble, and the uncomfortable. My comfort was taken away from me!   THANK GOD FOR THAT!  That lead to my FINALLY owning my own life, my income, my destiny, creating wealth for myself, health, GRATITUDE, and everything else that makes me who I am today.  And tomorrow I will keep growing because I know first hand the folly of getting too comfortable.  There is always another level to grow to and we must always keep going.  Live full and die empty right?  YES!

Here is something that the poor and humble are not!   The poor and humble are not certain members of our society who take free money from the government with no ambition to ever become independent of help from the government.  The person who does that is the poor and the entitlement driven stealing from the rest of us.  We are not paying our public school teachers decent wages.  Sometimes our soldiers fighting for us over seas die because we cannot afford to give them the proper body armor.  Some of our kids have died from preventable illnesses because we could not get them the health insurance they needed.  Over 80% of our total population, including our kids for the first time in our history, are dying from obesity and life style choice related problems.  All of this is going on while we have a number of both poor and rich people taking from everyone else with no ambition to become independent of government help.  Some people actually boast about how they “play the system”.    Those are the cowards taking money from the dying child because we cannot afford that child health insurance and the dead soldier who should have lived if only he had the proper body armor which we could not afford for him.

The poor and humble accepts the government help but they feel very uncomfortable to do so.  They let the government help buy them more time while they work hard to become independent from government help.  Some of the poor and humble who go on to create lots of wealth for themselves will write a check to the IRS for every dollar they received from the government while they struggled financially.  They pay the government back!!  That is inspiring!!!!  Who does that?!?!   The MOST HUMBLE people do that.

-Tom

“Don’t miss the chance to grow and resolve to pay that price until you learn.. change.. grow.. become.. Then you’ll discover some of lifes best treasures when you Pay That Price!”

Jim Rohn is right! I’v been doing this a few years I see that validated on both sides of the fence every day over tons of people from all walks of life. Those willing to dream dreams and ready to pay the price to make those dreams come true go on to live happier healthy more fulfilling lives those not willing to resolve to pay that price don’t go on to live happier healthy more fulfilling lives. It actually gets worse for they who are not ready to resolve to pay that price.  They who wait til after they are successful to begin doing the deed to become successful are stuck in an endless wait of analytical paralysis backed only by the thief in their mind after their promises.

As far as I’m concerned this Team Beachbody opportunity is the best vehicle in the world to help us live a more healthy and fulfilling life. It took me just 90 days to totally transform my health and 2 1/2 years to transform my financial health forever. Just 90 days to set myself up for life long generational health absent of common relapse and 2 1/2 years to declare myself financially independent and never have to worry about money again, for life. Which, by the way, taking care of my health helped to give me the energy, the breath, and the vitality to go after my dreams!!

As for my personal belief this Team Beachbody opportunity is your golden ticket opportunity to being able to work hard and resolve to pay that price until all of your goals, dreams, and promises come true. You have the information now so it’s your responsibility what you do with it. No one here is going to ask you to sign up for this in this blog post. Because what I’ve found in my years of experience is that the BEST people to work with are those who actually take initiative because they understand the consequences of inaction. The worst partners to work with are those who need outside motivation every step of the way because they don’t understand the consequences of inaction.

If you want to truly become my partner to work with in both Personal Health and Personal Wealth then YOU be the one to Take Action without procrastination (The cornerstone of all poverty is procrastination) and reach out to me.  Or if you need more information to make a decision ask me some questions so I can get the information you need.

-Tom

Whoever will have nothing to do with thorns, can never gather roses. – A Friend Named Adversity

The brook that flows over stones makes the sweetest music. – A Friend Named Adversity

If you remove the rocks, the brook will lose its song. – A Friend Named Adversity

Blessings thrive in afflictions’ soil. – A Friend Named Adversity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – A Friend Named Adversity

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. – A Friend Named Adversity

It isn’t the load that weights you down, it’s the way you carry it. – A Friend Named Adversity

The darkest clouds often bring the heaviest showers of blessing. – A Friend Named Adversity

Jesus is no security against life’s storms, but he is perfect security in them. – A Friend Named Adversity

Troubles are not sent to bother us but to better us. – A Friend Named Adversity

If we had no trials, there would be no triumphs. – A Friend Named Adversity

To get out of difficulty, we must go through it. – A Friend Named Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. – A Friend Named Adversity

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. – A Friend Named Adversity

Trouble is to the triumphant spirit what turbulent water is to a sturdy boat. – A Friend Named Adversity

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – A Friend Named Adversity

Adversity is the way the great surgeon gives us a face-lift. – A Friend Named Adversity

God often digs wells of joy with the spade of sorrow and adversity. – A Friend Named Adversity

Tears are often the means by which we see God’s rainbow of promises. – A Friend Named Adversity

When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. – A Friend Named Adversity

You will never be the person God wants you to be, if afflictions, trials, and disciplines are taken out of your life. – A Friend Named Adversity

Afflictions are but the shadow of God’s wings. – A Friend Named Adversity

No trouble can come so near that God is not nearer. – A Friend Named Adversity

Only God can change sunsets into sunrises. – A Friend Named Adversity

Adversity may sometimes get a Christian down, but only on his knees. – A Friend Named Adversity

Jesus spoke of Christianity as a banquet, but never as a picnic. – A Friend Named Adversity

God’s grace enables us to ‘face the music’ even when we don’t like the tune. – A Friend Named Adversity

One reason that the school of Christ is so tough is that you get the test first and the lesson later. – A Friend Named Adversity

Sufferings are to spiritual maturity as the chisel is to sculpture. – A Friend Named Adversity

True achievers have made adversity their friend. – A Friend Named Adversity

The very same adversity can make one bitter and another better. A thoughtful and prayerful study on how to face adversity can change one’s world. – A Friend Named Adversity

– Tom

Desert Sage

In august of 2007 I was broke, jobless, income-less, scared to death of ending up homeless, bad physical health etc..  In august of 2007 I signed up for the Team Beachbody Coach opportunity. Almost all of my friends who have signed up with me waited 2 or 3 years to sign up with me in my Team Beachbody Business. Some of them will sign up 4 years later, 5, and so on… None of them signed up with me my first 8 or 9 months of business. Most coaches will quit before they give this a chance to work. Not me. The majority will and the majority are broke and out of shape year after year because they are not in it to win it.

My friends who sign up with me see me achieve so much just based on what I’ve shared in facebook the past couple years. Sometimes a friend will call me up just to ask me if I’m still doing that Beachbody “thing” and how it’s going for me. Once I tell them I’m still in it YEARS later and business is booming in the year of the official recession my income increased over 700% despite the economy some of them sign up. There are other variables involved differing from person to person but largely they were waiting to see if I was in it to win it or not! Can you imagine if I told them I quit? I would STINK to high heaven and every ex coach who has a dream experiences it.

Big moral here..

Coaches who get in for a lil while to “try it out” and then quit if they don’t experience enough success quickly enough literally rob themselves of the respect of their friends and miss BIG opportunity to build a big business as time rolls on. Quitting stinks I’m glad I didn’t quit my first couple years when I was virtually a failure or I would have missed my freedom. I will never have to worry about money, the economy, time, and all those problems everyone else experiences stemming from time, money, and personal freedom constraints.  I lifted myself out of poverty and achieved this.  There was no special deal.  I paid the price for a couple years.  Those couple years were going to pass by anyway so was it worth it?  YES!!!!!!  Most people do not think so and that’s why most people are broke, out of shape, and falling short of the promises they made to themselves and to their families.

Most people in my shoes would have quit the first two months let alone the first two years of little to nothing to show for. I honestly and humbly have to pat myself on the back here. I hope all of you take a moment to pat yourselves on the back to when life rewards you for doing something most people will not do 🙂 And then share it with us and the rest of your support team who nurtures you to grow so we can pat you on the back to!  If you don’t have friends who nurture you to grow then you definitely need new friends Immediately!

If you’re actively building a dream remember the moral of this story especially if you haven’t made your way over the initial business “hump” yet….. Your friends, family, new friends you make along the way, all who do not make the commitment to come with you yet are just testing you…. Waiting to see if you’re in it to win it or not. No one wants to follow a loser so stay in it to win it! Do NOT put yourself in a position to where they are ready but you’ve already quit. I’ve been told horror stories of ex Team Beachbody coaches who literally threw up once they realized what they threw away by quitting.

Does being significant in other peoples lives turn you on?  Does finding success by being significant fuel your passions?? In my Team Beachbody Business it is not possible to be successful unless you have significance in other peoples lives.  If that speaks to your heart write / call me I want you in my business.  Take pride in the fact that you find success in this business by becoming significant in other peoples lives. It’s a wonderful concept get involved in this business, embrace it, and share it with everyone 🙂

Enroll for a coach account: http://beachbodycoach.com/metalpalace and call me: 262 344 1733

Tom
Independent Beachbody Star Diamond Leader

Desert High Stretch

This is why I read and I tell everyone they should to! This is why I’m relentless in my own pursuit of enlightenment, knowledge, and being of service to others. This is why I tell EVERYONE they should be relentless in these things to! We’d all be MUCH happier, healthier, more fulfilled human beings.

My relentless search for enlightenment through reading lead me to this gem by Lindsay Matway. Lindsay has a story of BIG triumphs over ENORMOUS challenges and set backs in her life. Naturally when I learned of her story I wanted to find out what the heck she is doing to achieve so much starting at a place so challenging and scary! This is a woman who was $400,000 in debt and climbing still, her new baby was born pre mature with no health insurance, she owned a house that had depreciated by $100,000 since the time she purchased and was starting to fall apart, faced with bankruptcy proceedings, not happy with her physical shape, struggling intensely in every way possible etc… She’s turned all that around, shes THRIVING, and shes still setting bigger goals and achieving them!! She’s a true inspiration to give people permission to let their own lights shine no matter how tough things are.

A short but SWEET read by Lindsay Matway now that I’ve edified the heck out of her enjoy:

“The pursuit of HAPPINESS is ALWAYS linked to being of SERVICE to others! Ask yourself, “How can I be of service?” instead of “How can I find happiness” and I promise you happiness with FIND YOU! Spend your life experiencing the beauty of GIVING BACK and your cup will ALWAYS runneth over! Give yourself the gift of GREAT HEALTH with the added bonus of a BOMBSHELL BODY! We know not what we are capable of until we PUSH past our comfort zones and force down the mental blocks that hold so many of us back in life! We are ALL capable of losing weight and being physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL! It is my hope that through sharing my own journey, I might somehow be able to assist you in breaking down that first imaginary wall that is holding you back at this moment in your life! Live inspired and you will give others permission to let their light shine too!” – Lindsay Matway

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life…He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil—he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. The other is good—he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.”They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win, Grandfather?” The Elder simply replied, “The one you feed.”

There are countless real life parallels you can draw from this story.  What a wise story!!  Everyone should know this story and think about it.  Let it stimulate the mind and then let it fuel some daily action for you to take more control over your own life!

The parallel that I thought of right away is the battle of sickness vs health going on in our bodies.  This battle is on going 24/7 and will never stop until life stops. Our body innately wants us to be healthy in this push shove war fare. We sabotage our own self interest every time we eat badly. The body asks for a banana and we send it a coca cola or a fast food “value” meal or both!  When you do that you are feeding the “evil wolf” and that evil wolf WILL get stronger and stronger until it gets YOU!  Sickness and disease in our bodies sits there, contained, quietly waiting for health to get weak.  As soon as sickness and disease sees a vulnerability in health because of how poorly we feed our bodies then sickness and disease moves in and starts to gain power in our bodies!  Case in point: we eat more poorly than ever before in our history and we are more disease riddled than ever before in our history.  The only way to win this struggle is to get involved, cooperate with the positive things going on inside our bodies and see if we can’t help out in this push shove match.  This battle has been going on in our bodies since we were created and it’s going to continue!  We’ve got to fight this battle our entire life which is exactly why if your not doing something you can sustain for the rest of your then it doesn’t matter how you’re helping your own self interest.  You can’t just sit on the sidelines, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.  That’s a terrible philosophy to have!  You’ve gotta get off the sidelines and in the game!  See where you can cooperate with the positive and see if you can’t help out in this struggle.  There is no other way!  If someone tries to tell you there is another way just take this magic pill and you’ll be fine then you’ve gotta have some backbone and say no!  You’re wrong!  This is fundamental stuff and fundamentals are old!  It’s existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist so long as there is life on earth.  Magic pills don’t exist you’ve gotta reject that whole idea and not be suckered into it!

Eat good, drink your Shakeology, stimulate your mind and body, do these things every day and you can keep sickness and disease controlled and contained into a very small corner.  It’s either cooperate with the positive things going on in your body or live your life in anguish.  There is no other way!

Tom

Beautiful Mountainous Desert outside of Las Vegas, NV

There are individuals in my Team Passion as well as myself who are having enormous success in designing the life of our dreams through our individual Team Beachbody Businesses.

Those of us building a business, making money, helping people get healthy, are completing assignments consistently and paying a price of RESOLVE UNTIL becoming successful. Most people with the stated goal of building a business to meet a need in their lives are not building a business instead they’re disappearing, not completing assignments, lacking consistency, lacking RESOLVE, they’re not communicating regularly with their support, they’re not making any money, and not helping anyone change their lives including their own.

This does not mean they’re bad people or unlikeable in any way. I happen to like most people very much. It just means that they don’t understand how lucrative they are yet. If they really knew how lucrative they are in ANY economy I know they’d consistently commit themselves to fail over and over again UNTIL they are successful. To “fall off” even if it’s just temporary to me means they have No Clue what they’re robbing themselves of, yet.

If you personally fall into that LARGER category of business owners (or non business owners) not building a business then get in direct touch with your support IMMEDIATELY and ask for some assignments. Then be consistent. RESOLVE you will do it until you are successful without falling off the wagon and taking breaks etc…  Falling short of that you most certainly will not build a business that will set you free to design the life of your dreams.

Growth is reserved for those who have a basic comprehension of opportunity to get EVERYTHING you’ve ever wanted and then a commitment to RESOLVE to pay the price of Change until you are Successful. Everyone else gets a dead business or dreams that die with you that ONLY YOU can give Life to. Both sides of that fence are being demonstrated and VALIDATED in our own team passion group that I founded and in life in general in and outside of a business.

I hope this turns on a light bulb for you in your mind so that everything can change beginning with a change in your mind.

Let’s ALL GROW TOGETHER INSTEAD OF JUST SOME OF US! Join the individuals who are already building BIG businesses 🙂

If you’d like some information about My Team Passion to see if it would be a good fit for you in meeting a need that you have please get in touch with me as soon as possible.

-Tom

Desert Sage

Who said you need money to make money??  This is the ultimate myth buster if you’re completely broke prepare to be liberated to make a fortune.  If you have a heart beat and some conscious thought then you have enough resources to make money.  If you’re reading this then you have a big ole surplus of resources you need to make money.  It does not matter if you have not a single dollar to your name with zero income the fact you’re reading this is proof positive that you have much more than just a heart beat and some conscious thought.  What more do you need to start developing yourself from where you’re honestly at to start making money??

If you’re going to start a legal business the old adage is probably true no matter what you need money to make money.  But who says you have to start with a business to make money?  Think outside the box!  Begin to take massive different action to developing yourself Immediately!  You’re broke you should not be putting this off another single day!  Procrastination is the cornerstone of ALL poverty! Your life depends on YOU doing something Different that’s more in line with the things that YOU want so stop killing yourself and take massive immediate action today!

If you have not a dollar to your name then let something else be a stepping stone to getting the money you need to make a financial investment or to start your own business.  And starting your own business that earns you a passive income that grows and grows over time is THEE single most smartest thing you can do even if you can’t do it YET have your eye on that ball.

MAKE MONEY WITHOUT MONEY HERE IT IS…

Gotta bike?  Rent it out!  Do you have a talent or a skill people would pay money for?  Go to any big city in America and you will see street performers of many kinds from musicians to card tricks to puppet shows!  Can you perform manual labor?  Offer to do housework for money!  These are just a few ways to make money without having any money.

When I was broke I put myself out there to do any kind of yard work or house work for only $10 an hour.  I also have a talent I developed for playing guitar so I tought guitar lessons for $35 per hour sessions. Between those two things I made enough to scrape by and buy my own business which later earned me a big ole fortune.   My financial starting point was $zero.  I didn’t respond to my $zero income by giving up while citing the old adage of needing money to make money.  My starting point was my starting point, I respected it, and I actually got started then followed through with it.  It doesn’t matter where you’re starting point is.  It might influence HOW or WHERE you get started but in terms of getting started it doesn’t matter if you’re starting point is $million, $100, $1, or $zero where you end up is not determined by where you start.  Where you end up is determined by if you actually get started or not and then if you see it through or not, period!

Don’t have a dollar, a skill, a service or a product that anyone would spend money on?  Then your starting point is personal development.  EVERYONE no matter how great they are should always engage in daily personal growth and development until the heart stops beating and body turns cold.  But if you have not a single thing to offer that anyone would pay money for then your only starting point is personal growth and development.  You must simply become more valuable to the marketplace  via personal growth and development. How do you make more money or ANY money in the market place?  You become more valuble to the market place!  The more valuable you become to the market place the more money you make!

What’s the difference between someone who makes $5 an hour and $500 an hour? One is a lot more valuable than the other to the market place. So the key is to learn how to work harder on yourself than you do on your job because that’s how you become more valuable. The late great Jim Rohn taught me that in an audio CD.  I use Jim Rohns material more than anyone else to become more valuable as I work harder on myself than I do my job. And I’m living proof positive right here validating it’s the honest to god truth. And anyone can do it the information is free to build your value in the market place so you can make more money.  Not all of the information is free.  If you have not a dollar to your name can you get a library card at your local library?  YES!!!  How much is a library card at your local library??  It’s FREE!  How EASY is FREE?  It’s EASY!

“It Doesn’t get Any Easier than Free!!” – Jim Rohn

The wealth of the world is at your local library.  You can learn how to change anything you want without spending a dollar to get that information all you have to do is go get it.  But 97% of the population can’t be bothered with it.  They find it easier to complain about their job, the economy, politics, and whatever else is going on in their lives that they are not very happy with.  It’s the 3% who’ve walked away from the 97% and lead drastically different life styles.  Both patterns of human behavior VERY starkly validating each respective life style.  Jim Rohn gave me very good advice when he said to walk away from the 97%.  I amended that to RUN AS FAST AS I CAN Away from the 97%.  I didn’t want to be like them philosophically.  Many of them are very nice likable people but in terms of the marketplace they are not very valuable and I don’t want to be broke or be complacent with “just getting by”.    I’m not down with that so I RAN AS FAST AS I COULD Away from the 97% philosophically.  Since then I’ve upgraded and am buying books to discover even more of lifes treasures.  But remember this friends it all started at my respective starting place which for me happened to be $zero.

All of us are born with massive potential in our abilities and our talents.  With a big enough dream that out weighs our biggest fears we can do whatever it takes to develop our abilities and our talents to move closer toward our massive potential and get everything we’ve ever wanted.

Let me give you an example of the kind of people I find inspiring.

I witness lots of people hit HARD by the economy just as all of you witness I’m sure.  The particular lady I witnessed in this example I’ve seen before in a few others but it’s very rare and I’m so inspired by them there are no words.  She said it’s not the fault of the economy that her income shrunk. She blames herself for not owning her income. She decided to OWN IT finally.  I believe her success in owning her own income and her own life has just been assured. Time just has to roll out the deal and then she WILL declare financial independence! What a breath of fresh air!! She walked away from most people blaming the economy for their hardships.  Shes on the path to setting herself FREE.  The belief of “it’s the economy” is 100% self inflicted popular head trash.  If you don’t want to be like them you must walk, or in my case, RUN away as FAST as you can!

Most people disagree and find it easier to give away there power to whatever it is they are blaming for there life not turning out the way they wanted it to.  I’ve found the ones fighting against ownership over their own income, their own destiny, and their own life lead a drastically different, broke, lifestyle. No judgement here just a stark observation.

Now I know what some of you are thinking… “oh Tom I’m just too old to start building my own value, I’m not old enough, I don’t have the motivation, it’s not what my parents taught me, I have a boil on my butt etc..”   At least you and I can finally agree your problem is not the economy but an inside job in your own mind.  But guess what?  The solution is also an inside job in your own mind 😉  Never forget that.

My aim with this is to turn on light bulbs and inspire people to feel empowered and to ultimately take Massive Different ACTION Immediately.  I’m hoping you’ve had enough validation by now that procrastination is the cornerstone of all poverty including your own poverty.  Waiting to act til you have more money, more time, more this or that is the formula for a dead life til the day you join the physically dead.  I hope you decide it’s easier to climb than it is to regret not climbing.  I hope you make a decision in your own favor and then I hope you RESOLVE to commit to fail over and over again until you are successful.

Begin designing the life of your dreams and begin TODAY even if your starting point financially is $zero income like mine was.  I promise you you’ll never take the second step closer toward your own dreams if you don’t take the first step.

– Tom

Desert Sage

Common distracting thought: “It’s not my fault my life didn’t go the way I wanted”

I have news for you; it is your fault. This doesn’t make you bad and it doesn’t mean you are a failure. You have control over your thoughts and therefore your actions. Your thoughts and actions will determine your life. If you constantly blame others for the way your life has turned out you have given all your power away to other people.  And I’ve got news for you; they don’t have much planned for you. Take the control back and take responsibility for your thoughts and actions.  That’s how you design the life of your dreams.  And if you help enough people get what they want you can have EVERYTHING that you want.

Leveling with you with love,

– Tom

Desert Sage

Remember kids credit cards are just pieces of plastic with power that we give them from our thinking. Like anything else they are a tool! But this particular tool is a financial tool that can help or hurt your wealth depending on how you think.

Person (A) uses the credit card with awareness, understanding, and accountability. Person (B) uses the credit card lacking awareness, understanding, and accountability. Person (A) has a more favorable outcome than person (B). The credit card is the same for both person (A) and (B). The only difference is in their thinking which lead to different actions which lead to different outcomes.

If you use a credit card I recommend being like person (A) and not like person (B)!

If you fully realize and understand you are incurring real debt then the credit card is an enormously helpful piece of plastic that can benefit you hugely 🙂 Most credit card issuers will actually pay you to use their credit card.  You’ve just got to pay them off every month on time. They are basically paying YOU interest instead of you paying them interest to use their available credit!! And you are rewarded with their money simply by your awareness, understanding, and accountability. It’s a no brainer in my opinion. Do what you should be doing anyway and you are rewarded with more wealth.

If you need to work on yourself first then it’s probably best not to use credit cards because you will ultimately spend money to spend money and that to me does not make any sense. But once you have the discipline, the awareness, the accountability, and the understanding then I’m a very strong advocate of using credit cards they are AWESOME.

– Tom

Say this outloud every morning and experience how you begin to feel and the bold new actions you begin to create to shape your beautiful life.

I commit to myself and to putting myself FIRST

I commit to myself first because I’m worth it

I commit to myself first because I’m more valuble to other people when I’m at my absolute best to be able to help out

I commit to never stop growing because I’ve staked my human existance on my stated purpose

I commit to show the strength of the commitments I have made through the strength of my daily actions because I know that action is the only creative process that has the power to shape my life and help the people around me at the same time.

I commit to take care of myself every day because I’m worth it, my family is worth having me at my best, and the peoples lives I have the power to touch are worth it.

I commit and my daily actions will show the strength of my commitment.

– Tom

Desert High Stretch

The activity YOU do toward reaching YOUR GOALS creates the kind of excitement you need to accomplish your goals. Having goals can chase the blues away because accomplishment breeds happiness. I know a lot of people who try to use logic to feel better and it doesn’t work. Can you think of people who you know who do that? I’m sure you can think of dozens we all know many people who do that. Once and a while I’m guilty of that myself it’s just something that needs more attention and self intervention. Logic does not change emotion. ACTION changes emotion and goals create action.

Approximately 95% of all people die without living what they believe to be a successful life. This statistic is in unison with the failure rate at which people set life changing goals and neglect to cultivate those goals into success. This 95% figure isn’t a law. No one is bound to a statistic like this. What this statistic does is reflect a sad truth that only 5% of all people are willing to do the things necessary to cultivate their dreams and life changing goals into success.

Get out a pencil (not a pen) and a sheet of paper. I’m going to teach you an exercise for setting and achieving goals that I learned from a VERY successful entrepreneur; Jeff Olson. Don’t feel constricted by this exercise you can always modify, add to it and make changes later so use a pencil.

This exercise is going to help you envision your success. Envisioning involves doing everything you can to make it real even before it becomes real. You do that by making it physical and involving your senses. When you write it down and make picture boards it becomes tangible. If you say it out loud it becomes more powerful in your mind. The moment you do something beyond the confines of your skull it starts to become real. If you can’t envision life changing success you won’t achieve it. It’s the 95% of all people who are fooled by thinking, “My goals are in my head that’s good enough”. Keeping a goal or a dream only in your mind by definition is wishful thinking, not envisioning. Wishful thinking is like saying, “I’ll give it a try”. Giving something a try just doesn’t cut it. As Jedi Master Yoda Said, “Do, or do not. There is no try”.

There are four parts to this exercise. Write the following down and make sure to leave space between each section…

1.) My Dreams for my Health:

2.) Price to pay:

3.) Plan to start:

4.) One simple daily discipline:

My Dreams for my Health: Be specific, aim high but make them attainable. Be vivid and with a timeline. Without deadlines you leave everything open ended and diminish your chances of reaching your goals. Remember, the longer you wait the more of life you run out of.

Price to Pay: With every dream lived or life changing goal accomplished there is a price to pay, period. Most people aren’t willing to pay the price of their dreams and goals (Approx. 95%) and instead live quiet lives of despair; regret. The price to pay to live your dreams and accomplish your important goals is worth it. It generally includes teeny tiny small sacrifices. On the other hand; the price to pay for regret is far greater than the price to pay for the daily discipline required to reach your big objectives. Disciplines weigh ounces and regrets weigh tons. I.e. A price to pay for a dream of great health could be giving up junk food, postponing purchases, practicing some delayed gratification, initial discomfiture in exercise etc.

Plan to start: The important point is to start. Remember that no matter what has gone on before, no matter how far down the curve of failure you’ve slid, no matter what’s in your past you can begin fresh and new any time you choose. The past can’t be changed but the future can be. Your future will always be determined by what you do right NOW. There is no tomorrow; tomorrow will always be a day away. Your life exists right now and right now determines success or failure in the future. It’s never too late to start. It’s always too late to wait. Very simple philosophies no need to make any of this complicated 🙂 Notice I said plan to START and not plan to get you to the finish line. Initially you need a plan to get out of the starting gate. Your plan will change as you monitor what’s going on and make corrections that keep you on the path toward success.

One Simple daily discipline: It really doesn’t take much but if you do it every day with the compounding affect over time it makes all the difference. The one simple daily discipline could be to workout every day. If your nutrition is bad make a second daily discipline of cleaning up your diet. If you need more daily disciplines add them but be honest with yourself and write them down. The most drastic life changing differences are often the result of the littlest of things compounded daily over time. You don’t need to be a super human here. Anybody can do these things.

Once you have all of that in place create a daily to do list of just a few simple things and check them off every single day. At the top of my daily to do list is “Work out”. Any task that you give yourself, if compounded over time, will make a drastic difference over time ESPECIALLY the seemingly insignificant mundane daily things so make them all work for you. Otherwise they will work against you because there is no middle road. Time will expose you or promote you.

Last but not least keep this sheet of paper out in the open where you will see it several times every day (i.e. computer desk, fridge etc).

If you follow this easy system PLEASE write me and let me know how it has worked out for you. I would absolutely love to hear about your successes 🙂

– Tom

Desert Sage

Do you have friends who call you out when you don’t follow through with something you said you were going to do?

Two kinds of friends.

The first kind usually mean well and care about you but will only tell you what you want to hear instead of what you need to hear. They are likely to support anything you do and be all lovey dovey like when you don’t follow through on something you said you were going to do.

The second kind of a friend, like most of the first kind of friends, will care about you but unlike the first kind they will also nurture you by telling you what you need to hear. If you quit on a promise that you made to yourself or anyone else they will call you out on it and try to move you to follow through on what you said you were going to do.

Sometimes we need the second kind of friend. Sometimes YOU need the second kind of friend just to challenge you with the truth about your excuses. The first kind of friendship is more like a poison really and it’s one of the most common poisons in our culture and it’s not just between friends but between spouses and family as well. The intention is good because they probably care about you. But you know what they say about intentions and the road to hell right?

Take on the challenge of surrounding yourself more with nurturing people and watch how your life turns out. A nurturing person will never support anything and everything you do. When you mess up they will let you know constructively and push you to do what you said you were going to do. They will probably push you to shoot even higher because they see value in you before you see it in yourself.

And you should pay that kind of foresight forward! When you see a friend with so much value in them that they do not yet see in themselves you should absolutely communicate that with them and challenge them to tap their potential. You never know whos life you might touch just by believing in them before they believe in themselves and then effectively communicating it with them. That, my friends, is a selfless act that should be practiced more in our culture.

– Tom

Desert Sage

Is what you’re doing right now lined up with your priorities or someone elses? Are you building your own dreams or someone elses dreams who doesn’t have much planned for you in return?

Are your daily rituals supportive or unsupportive of the promises you made to yourself and to your family?

What are some of your daily rituals you could swap out that aren’t advancing your life for some daily rituals that will advance your life and inevitably crystallize your dreams and the promises you made to yourself and your family into reality?

Those are the questions that YOU should be asking yourself every day. I do and I’m living my dreams. Otherwise the things you said you’d like to achieve is really just a joke of wishful thinking not to be taken seriously by anyone including the entire universe and it’s powers. When you include others in on your dream, tell them about it, and then don’t follow through then it turns into more of a selfish inaction that can potentially devastate others who might be counting on you to follow through with a promise that YOU made to them.  This seems to devastate children more than adults.  Don’t break a promise to a child or anyone for that matter including promises you make to yourself.

No matter how small or big your life is, no matter what you’ve achieved or have not achieved, no matter how rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, spiritually awake or sleeping, no matter how badly you’ve messed up in your past, you’re either growing or rotting by the daily actions you take brought on by whatever it is you believe in.

Are your daily actions positioning time to be on your side to promote you or are your daily actions positioning time to be against you to expose you? Time is non prejudice it doesn’t have a bias which means if you’re not advancing it’s because of YOU.

The passing of time is your most valuable asset because without time there is no way to get the feedback you need to know if you’re daily actions are working. Whatever you’re DOING the passing of time will take care of the rest.

That feedback that can ONLY be found in the passing of time contains all the information you need to validate if what you’re spending your time DOING is conducive to your dreams, your priorities, and your promises or not. Start paying attention to the feedback of time. It’s telling you if what you’re doing is working or not!

FOR EXAMPLE… If you’ve been working X number of years and you’re still broke then time has validated for you that you’re daily actions are not working. It’s also validating that if you keep doing what you’ve always been doing you’ll always have no more than what you’ve already got. What’s that mean if you want something different than what you’ve already got? It means CHANGE COURSE! And ONLY then time will give you new feedback validating your different daily actions one way or the other so that you may make further refinements, which produces new feedback to meet with new refinements, each time moving closer and closer to your dreams and promises. The key to putting time on your side to promote you is to keep going back and forth between learning and doing in what’s known as the  rhythm of learning, one advancing the other between learning and doing, til you are on a path that brings your dreams and promises closer to you.

Keep making refinements with your eye on the ball and it’s inevitable every time WITHOUT EXCEPTION you will get where you want to be. It’s a natural law of the earth it’s always been and always will be that way. Don’t change and nothing changes. Change and something changes. Pay attention to the feedback through the passing of time to know if it was a positive or negative change then re set your aim and fire again for new feedback. Real simple first grade stuff.

-Tom

Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas, NV

Money by itself is stupid in my opinion BUT some of us have got to get over our FALSE altruistic sense of moral value when it comes to money.

– You know in your heart and in your soul that if only you had more money you could afford to put your kids through college.

– You know that if only you had more money you could afford home care for your parents instead of having to put them up in a nursing home, or, taking care of them yourself on top of everything else you’ve got to do and face the real possibility of clinically exhausting yourself.  That’s a real scenario for most people between the ages of 35 and 50 years old.

– You know that if only you had enough money then if something were to happen to your job you’ll be ok and your family will be ok.

– You know that if only you had enough money , god forbid something happens to you, your family will be taken care of.

– You know that if only you had enough money you could afford to eat healthy organic foods and consequently LIVE better and feel better.  If you desire to help others you know you’d be more capable to.

– You know that if only you had enough money you wouldn’t feel the unapologetic squeeze of a merciless economy.

– You know that if only you had enough money then you wouldn’t have to live in the fear that a  paycheck to paycheck life style tends to cultivate.

– You know that if only you had enough money then when an emergency comes up, they are inevitable it’s not a question of if but when, you won’t have to worry about how you’re going to come up with the money.

– You know that if only you had enough money you could buy your freedom and buy back your life to spend your time how YOU want to spend your time and not how someone else demands that you spend your time.

And if you’re feeling ambitious in a humanitarian point of view you know that if only you had millions and BILLIONS of dollars then a LOT of kids in the world who are literally starving to death would be fed and given the medical attention they need.   You know that we’d be closer to the discovery of a cure for heart disease and cancer which we so desperately need.

Imagine if you quit being selfish, you went out there and made as much money as you could and that money was instrumental in finally finding a cure for cancer and heart disease!   Can you imagine how much less pain and suffering would result from that?  I’m not just talking about the agony of the patients stricken with these diseases but I’m also speaking to the pain and sadness of surrounding loved ones.  Most of my grand parents and an uncle, so far, I’ve lost to cancer.  Everyone is affected by this I know all of you are to so I know you know what I’m talking about it’s one of the most relatable things I can think of.

One of my life goals is to make a Billion dollars, donate 99.9% of it to leaving the world a better place than I was born into it, and donating the rest of the .1% upon my own death because I can’t take it with me.  Just imagine if everyone would get over there false sense of altruistic moral ego about money and had desires to make as much of it as possible for the purpose of service toward others.  Imagine what kind of a different world we’d live in.

Here is something about money.  Money isn’t evil.  It has no agenda.  It has no feelings.  People are both good and evil with shades of grey.  Money is not the root of evil or good.  Money is what you do it.  Money has as much to do with fueling evil as does the fork for making a fat person fat.  It’s the philosophy that the person holds that drives money for good or evil.  Likewise it’s the philosophy that the person holds that drives the person to use the fork to cultivate good health or bad health.    It’s the philosophy that the person holds that drives the person to use a tire iron to fix a tire with it or to commit murder with it.    Money doesn’t do anything to people.  People do things to people and some people have a very false altruistic moral ego about money.

I’m not going to vilify anyone who reads this and still has no desire to earn more money.  In fact I am totally fine with it one way or the other.  Mother Theresa was poor and she is among the most selfless people throughout the earths history.  But don’t equate money to moral value because they really don’t have anything to do with each other.

Here is your note of caution…

The thing about having this kind of money is it takes time to build. Years in fact.  I like knowing I’m in the 2 – 5 year plan instead of the 15 to 30 year plan (if you only have a job odds are you’ll never get there anyway).  That time is going to pass by anyway.  Since it’s going to pass by anyway and you have the benefit of knowing it’s going to pass by it’s up to you to decide if your dreams are big enough dreams that you won’t be denied.

In America nothing stops you from being successful and you don’t have to ask for permission to become successful.  In fact it’s quite the opposite.  The tax code in America incentivizes wealth.  I’m living proof of that.  In 2010 if I did not own my own home based business I would have spent SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PLUS more than I needed to.  Dang right this country incentivizes and creates opportunity.  No one will tell me otherwise.

Take advantage of the great opportunities in which you and I live and live your life in the service of others.

-Tom

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world” – Anne Frank 1952

Desert Sage

My job was off shored to India, my health care was taken away from me, I was attending school full time and a half, I had ZERO income, I had virtually no time, my health was in decline… Does that sound like a ‘Lucky’ scenario? I thought I was cursed actually.

The only stroke of luck that I have is that I was born and raised in America. The rest of my good fortune came from my ambition and a willingness to do the things that most of you out there are not willing to do.

Today I have a handsome cash flow, I can do what I want, I report to no boss, I have time, and I have excellent enough health to enjoy my good fortunes. I was able to gain all this PART TIME.  I’m not sacrificing time for money and I’m not sacrificing money for time. I’m not sacrificing health for anything.  That balance IS success. Rich people in poor health and no time are not successful. People with lots of time and no money are not successful.  Success is found only in balance.

Some say, “Tom you’re lucky!”. I appreciate that people are happy for me but I was not lucky by any means except that I live in America.  I had nearly everything working against me two and a half years ago but instead of retreating, drowning in self pity, waiting till things got better, blaming everything else but myself, I cultivated new ambition and a burning desire to act TODAY without procrastination for as long as it took.  Most of you are not willing to do that and that is why I’ve passed up most of you. I actually started at a place much further behind than where most of you are at and I still passed you up because I exercised more ambition and a willingness to do the things most people are not willing to do than you have exercised. How does that make you feel to know there are people out there much worse off than you who are now doing circles around you while you are still waiting to go after your dreams?  Most of you are willing to procrastinate or let your fears inhibit you from doing things you innately want to do. That’s why most of you are behind on your promises and that isn’t going to change until you change first.

The most meaningful part of being an Independent Team Beachbody coach is bringing other people with me out of average and into extraordinary.  The money I’m making doesn’t out rank the importance of bringing other people with me and up to speed on the promises they’ve made to themselves. I’m not selfish in my success it’s not in me to be that way. It is in me to give till I have nothing left until I get a good night sleep.  I’m not retiring, ever.  The more I have the more I’m able to do for you who are willing.  The Team Beachbody coaches in my team are the beneficiary of my all out giving!

It’s also in me to exercise honest tough love and tell you the honest truth even if it makes you angry. If your philosophy is keeping you back, if your actions are wrong, if your way of thinking is devastating you then you need to know about it so we can begin pulling you out of the mess! If you want out of the mess you’ve gotta have the guts to at least see yourself in the mess even if it’s painful. That’s exactly why some people are able to get out of the mess. They have the guts to see who and what they are TODAY so they can get out of the mess of today by becoming the person they want to be for TOMORROW. That’s how some people are seemingly ‘lucky’. They aren’t lucky. They are just willing to do the things most of you are not willing to do.

IF you are willing to do the things that most people are not willing to do then I’d love to work with you. You can be the beneficiary of my expertise and my willingness to give you everything I’ve got so you can get caught up on your own promises.

Here is a sad reality.  Mostly everyone living in America still has a job, is able to make ends meet, are not very happy, and doing nothing about it.  That’s not really the sad part I was referring to.  The sad part is that every single one of those people live in America and aren’t taking advantage of any opportunity out there to gain the things they dream of having.  Now here is the disgusting part.  Remember where I mentioned having the guts to look at the mess of today so you can take yourself out of the mess for tomorrow?  If you fall into this category of wanting more and doing nothing about it then you have to hear this. There are lots of people in this nations past and present who have known devastation, poverty, and adversity that you have and I  have never ever known who took advantage of opportunity that you let slide by and now those deserving people are running circles around you while you still have nothing more than wishful thinking to show for!!  How can an individual who is worse off than you pass you up and run circles around you while you’re not even in the game yet but still just standing their on the sidelines of your own life??  That individual has more ‘skin in the game’ than you do.  That individual has a philosophy that’s driving them forward and you have a philosophy that’s sliding you backwards. “The laws of sowing and reaping don’t say if you need you will reap.  The laws of sowing and reaping say if you sow you will reap.” – Jim Rohn

How many of you out there wish you were in better shape, you’re able to at least walk on your own two feet but not willing to exercise regularly all the while there are people confined to a wheel chair and still doing whatever they can to be healthy?

How many of you out there wish you had more time and money, you’re able to at least make ends meet, you have a roof over your head, and do nothing to take advantage of opportunities all the while there are people living in the same country as you with absolutely nothing but ambition who are now running circles around you?

How many of you experience an emotional set back and then use that emotional setback to keep procrastinating on your promises; all the while the largest success stories in the democratic world are those who were driven by their emotional pains that are far greater than ANY tragedy you’ve ever known?

Why is that???  The sooner you realize it’s not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail that determines your destination then the sooner you can begin to change the direction of your life.  Position your daily actions so that both positive and negative events in your life act as a stepping stone toward success.  Or let them push you backwards and remain average.

When looking at my own past I am embarrassed for waiting til I was jobless with zero income, no health insurance, no time, and declining health until I finally did something about it.  Even though it was not my fault my job was off shored to India I was extremely embarrassed and felt shame over my situation. I saw my situation for what it was, as painful as it was to look at, and I replaced some bad habits with good habits.  It would not have been possible if I was not brave enough to see ‘it’ for what ‘it’ was so that I knew what I was dealing with to be able to pull myself out of the mess!  That’s exactly how the truth, albeit some times the painful truth, will “Set You Free!”  Free to correct the errors of the past so you can have a completely different future.   So you can set a better sail this year than you did last year to arrive at a more desirable destination.

I hope this helps you cultivate a burning desire in you to do something.  I don’t even care what it is as long as it leads to a positive impact upon others around you. 

Set yourself on fire and let the world watch you burn!

-Tom

Desert Sage

“That’s what faith is” says a lot of Christians.

Faith is not about disengaging from your own life only to let god take care of everything. When you step god steps. Stand still god is probably going to stand still. Faith is only putting your heart and belief into something that cannot be observed or measured. Faith is of the metaphysical world. You can’t see it or measure it but you believe it anyway so it is faith. Do you understand faith now?

High cholesterol is measurable it is not faith.  High blood pressure is measurable it is not faith.  Diabetes, obesity, the poor behavior that you model is all observable and measurable it is not faith.  It’s your profound false belief in faith that develops these observable measurable things going on in your body. 

God doesn’t make fake food. God gave us whole all natural ORGANIC foods so that we can take care and HONOR our temple that our soul occupies in our current experience.  Man invented fake food; the junk food that most of you put in your mouths regularly. God did not give us artificial sweeteners and trans fats. Do you think god made artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and trans fats?  Man did all of that.  Do you think god wants you to put that garbage in your body?  Of course not.  That’s why those of you who consume it regularly have all those health problems.

Your body is your temple. Take care of your temple. Honor your temple and your god by putting good things into your mind, BODY, and spirit. You need to actively grow and nurture all 3 every day. Mind, BODY, as well as spirit. Otherwise your faith is dead meaningless faith.

Our kids are dying now at least partly because of the behaviors Christians are modeling. Modeling obesity, diabetes, clogged arteries and sludge churning blood vessels is not godly. If Jesus were around today he’d get all of his food in the all natural ORGANIC whole food section of the grocery store or he’d grow and harvest his own food with no chemicals or un natural fertilizers.  Jesus would not be putting the kind of garbage most Christians seem to be consuming into his mouth. Can you see Jesus eating the kind of food you eat? I didn’t think so. Jesus was the greatest leader that ever lived I believe. And he modeled the behavior he wished for you to model as well. So why aren’t you modeling it? Why are you trashing and disgracing the temple in which your soul occupies in your current experience with the garbage you put into your mouth?  Will you finally at last cut it out and really start honoring your god with your mind, BODY, and soul?

God gave you a potential. We all have a potential and it’s always bigger than we realize. The day you decide you’ve experienced enough, you’re old enough, you’re mature enough, you’re at a place in your life where you’ve decided you’ve grown as close toward your potential as you need to and you’re just going to let your mind, your body, or your spirit stop growing then you are CHEATING, dishonoring, and disgracing the god of your choosing.  The very day you decide to stop taking care of your health is the day you begin cheating god; whom was gracious to give you your potential in the first place.

God didn’t arbitrarily give you potential. Gods plan is for you to live up to your potential. There is a very real and divine purpose behind your potential. I don’t know what that purpose is but it probably revolves around helping people even if it’s just in the form of giving someone hope in the midst of their own struggles. How could you cheat those people you were suppose to give hope to and let your body, or your mind, or your spirit just rot away? Are you really that self-absorbed in your own ego? You inspire and give hope to no one when you do that. That is not what god has planned for you. That’s YOUR DECISION you made on your own without god.

Will you finally step with god and give your faith meaning?  Will you pull your faith out from the status of “dead faith” and actually do something positive every day to feed your mind, BODY, and spirit?  Will you finally do these things and actively begin being part of gods plans for all of us?  Will you finally once and for all and for the love of people around you desperate for hope quit being so self absorbed that you can’t be bothered to take care of your health and begin scoring some victories everyone can see over your own challenges?

– Tom