Next time you’re ready to eat some unhealthy food, ask yourself the following questions:
Is this food going to help me become who I want to become, ie.Β fit and healthy?
Is this food going to help me achieve my vision?
Is this food going to give me the energy I need to create something beautiful today?
Do you still feel like having that food?
It works! Try it!
Do this for any bad habit that’s no longer helping you become the person you’ve decided to become.
Love, Angelos
I want to wish myself MORE Listening this year…
More listening means less thinking (the “bad” thinking, worry, anxiety…)
Less thinking means a quiet mind.
A quiet mind means peace, tranquillity, happiness, space for new fresh thinking, the “good” thinking, ie. new insight.
You either think or listen.
Even a meditation master who can stop their thinking, they’re still in a listening mode.
They’re focusing on their breathing, ie. listening to their breathing.
The opposite of listening is having a busy mind.
A busy mind blocks the channel that connects you with the universal wisdom, the intelligence, the energy that’s always there for you to tap into, if you decide to listen.
Children are good at listening! Children suck you in. They take you in. They absorb you.
And all of us going… “I’m curious… what are they thinking now?”
That’s the thing. They are not thinking. They’re listening.Β 
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You can’t figure out the solution to a problem by thinking.
Constant thinking over a problem will not give you the answer.
Forgetting the problem and going for a walk, ie. more listening (a meditative walk, connecting with nature) will give you the answer.
Less thinking will open the space for new insight to come to the surface.
I want more listening for myself in 2020!
More listening will help me understand and serve my clients better this year.
More listening will help me learn better from my coaches and teachers this year.
More listening will help me see the direction I want to go more clearly.
More listening will help me connect with my inner wisdom.
OK. That’s enough for New Year’s day!
What can I wish for you now, dear friends?
I want to wish you whatever will serve you best this year, no matter whether you see it or not right now.
Because sometimes we wish ourselves the wrong things.Β βΊοΈ
With all my love,
Angelos
6am in the office this morning…
Watching the recorded coaching session with my own coach…
In my jacket because it was super cold when I arrived…
I watched the recorded session twice. One for information and one for transformation as I like to say.
And I may listen to it again because when you pay hundreds of dollars for an hour of coaching, you value it, you learn, and most importantly, you take action!
I spent more than 2 hours watching our session.
Three Moleskine diaries on my desk.
I took a bunch of notes. So many lessons!
I then messaged my coach to say thank you again for her time and presence during our session. For me, that’s more important than the money I paid.
And then I closed my eyes and visualised people who would benefit from these notes.
I reached out to them. Passed the love to them.
I have my clients in my thoughts between our sessions.
I bring them to my mind and I meditate on their projects.
I enjoy working along with them, even when I’m not coaching them.
I borrowed that from my coaches.
Isn’t that amazing by the way?
This is a chain of service!Β 
My coach, myself and my clients.
Each one passing love and wisdom to each other.
I now love hoovering!Β π
Because one day I decided to move hoovering from my “should do” list to my “love to do” list.
If I can’t escape hoovering, how can learn to love hoovering?
Mmm… what if I can listen to my favourite audiobook while doing the hoovering?
YES!
Now, before I turn the hoover on, I’m already wearing my Airpods and listening to another audio!
Hoovering is making me a better coach these days!
Hoovering means self-development to me now!
I can do hoovering for hours!
Is there something you “should do” that you’d love to have in you “love to do”?
What is it? Share it with us and let’s see if we can come up with any ideas all together!
Because my experience shows that procrastination is a result of having should do’s rather than love to do’s!
Procrastination is the soul rebelling – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Can you get creative and move stuff to the column on the right?
How many times, when you have a problem, you keep bearing down on it and trying to figure it out…
We all do it and yet it is a futile task.
There isn’t anything there to figure out.
Never can be an answer in trying to figure it out.
Because new insight is the answer.
And all we do by trying to figure it out is we keep our head cluttered with all this other stuff that’s not allowing new insight to come up.
Our thinking is holding down wisdom from popping up to the surface.
How different is it trying to figure it out from forgetting it?
Could there be two more diametrically opposed things than trying to figure it out and forgetting it?
And by forgetting it I mean taking it off our minds and going about our business.
Going for a walk. Stop engaging with it for a while.
And when our minds clear on their own, we see something new…
And in some cases, the problem is not there any more.
It was never a real problem…
Much love, Angelos
I realised I’ve reached πππ subscribers and more than π π¦π’π₯π₯π’π¨π§ views on YouTube.
But is the end goal really subscribers and views?
I started my journey on YouTube 4 years ago.
Back then I was hungry for followers, likes and views.
Today all I want is to form deep relationships with people.
The point of sharing your message online is to connect with like-minded people, to interact with them, get on the same boat with them because you want to enjoy the journey together.
You don’t need thousands on your boat!
A few is enough! One is enough!
If you manage to attract ONLY ONE person to your life through your creative work, whatever that work is, videos, articles, paintings, photography, singing, etc. that’s enough!
If you manage to inspire ONLY ONE person with your work and that person takes some action that makes his life better, then your work has completed its mission!
Has it occurred to you when someone comes across your article, video, or any creation and reaches out to you, to just say “Thank you, that helped me so much, it was what I needed!”
And then you come closer to that person, you build a relationship, you probably become friends… Isn’t that fascinating?
Isn’t that rewarding enough to keep you creating without expecting anything else in return?
Someone once told me that YouTube was not working for him. He had only 150 subscribers.
I told him… imagine you’re on the stage of a room with all your 150 subscribers. They’re looking at you in your eyes, waiting for you to share your message, your creative art, they’re looking forward to getting inspired by you and you say…
“Sorry, YouTube is not working for me. You’re not enough. I have to stop” and you walk out of that room.
I’ll not say anything else. I’ll leave you to think about all this.
I just want to dedicate these words to my two clients Tom Pandolfino and Luke Tamminga who both quit their high paying corporate jobs in order to follow their true purpose in life and become language teachers. Both are only 25. Tom is in London, Luke is in California.
Because one day I decided to quit my high paying corporate job.
Because one day I decided to make a video.
Because one day Luke and Tom happened to watch that video.
Because one day Luke and Tom will be inspiring others to follow their true purpose.
All this makes me think that it was worth making that video…
With all my love,
Angelos
Everybody says “you need to be focused, the secret of success is FOCUS!”
Some others call it FLOW. “Peak performance is a result of being in a state of flow!”
OK, understood … but how do you achieve that bloody focus??? Is it always easy for you? It’s not for me!
I decided to do some research and I found a lot of interesting stuff but here I’m just going to share an insightful talk by Friederike Fabritius β a neuroscientist β that provides the most satisfactory answer in my opinion. The talk is called Fun, Fear and Focus. I’d recommend that you watch the whole thing! I watched it and I was totally focused! π
If you want to achieve focus, forget focus and do this:
1) Add FUN to your activity, make it more playful, use different methods of working towards a goal, try different strategies, see it as a game!
2) Add FEAR to what you do, make it challenging, make the outcome feel a little uncertain, it needs to feel like it’s taking you slightly out of your comfort zone (not completely out of your comfort zone though!).
If you do (1) and (2), all of a sudden, scientists found that FOCUS comes effortlessly! It’s a byproduct of FUN and FEAR. Because think about it, you can’t be focused on something that’s boring, repetitive, extremely easy for you no matter how focused you’re trying to stay!
PS: In my opinion, the idea of FOCUS goes further than all the above and touches deeper things like mindfulness, meditation and living in the present. Here, I just “focused” on how we can achieve focus at work or some activity that’s important for our success.
There are amazing people around you who are doing extraordinary things and are there ready to become friends with you, share their story and inspire you!
I met a wonderful couple from South Africa in Lefkada! These two literally blew my mind while I was chilling by the sea with Katya. They appeared out of the blue (literally and metaphorically!!!) and shared with me so many beautiful things!
I got two new friends. I’m looking forward to doing stuff with these two stars.
Inspire me guys!
How do you get yourself charged if you’ve run out of energy? We never forget to charge our mobile phones, we’re always online on Facebook and social media but… What specific steps do you take to make sure your battery is always charged?
Because, your creativity, your resourcefulness, your relationships, your family, your sexual life, the ability to think outside the box, the ability to take right decisions, and the perception of you from all the outside world depends on your battery.
So, what is your charger? How do you get charged back?
I’d love to know!
Angelos
This guy’s net worth would be $660 bn in today’s money (yes, richer than Bezos).
I’m wondering then how “Keep Hustling” has got to become the new motto for success?
Anyone got an idea???
P.S. I’m not assessing this man’s ethics, how he made his fortune, etc. I’m only assessing his words per se.
P.P.S I don’t personally pair success with net worth but I mentioned net worth for those of you who do. I’m OK with that and I believe people use their money for different purposes.
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