Squirrel

Focus On Purpose

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1646487520661{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]As I sit here early on a Saturday morning writing, I notice my attention is drawn away from my computer and into my backyard…

Now, I have intentionally gotten up early to write, my wife and kids are sleeping and I have a great chunk of time to work on my book. 

As I look out back across our pool, I notice a squirrel inside our screen enclosure.

I think to myself… I have to get the squirrel out…

Focus On PurposeSo I stand up and start walking to get my shoes….

That’s when it hit me…

I start laughing out loud. 

I’m working on a book about living life intentionally and writing the chapter on FOCUS!!!

And I’m literally getting up to chase a SQUIRREL!!!

How often are you distracted from chasing your dreams, your goals, your purpose, your passion? 

Too often we are chasing squirrels (distractions) when we should be pursuing our purpose and passion. 

How distracted are you?

I created the Wake Up On Purpose Course & Planner to help myself to:

  • Remember who I want to become 
  • Align my goals with a bigger vision 
  • Stay focused on my goals every day
  • Get more done and feel more productive
  • Put myself first instead of feeling like I’m always doing for someone else

If you feel like you are constantly doing for others…

If you feel like you aren’t making progress on your own goals…

If you feel like you are constantly working at a job you hate…

Stop Chasing Squirrels!

It’s time to make a change

It’s time to Wake Up On Purpose – https://www.wakeuponpurpose.com/

Dan

ps – Once I’m done writing this, I’m literally going to chase a squirrel!

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What gets you up in the morning?

Wake Up On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz

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“There are two great days in a person’s life;
the day you were born and the day that you discover why.”

 – William Barclay

 

What gets you up in the morning? 

Is it the dreaded beeping of your alarm clock? Is it the kids screaming running into your room and jumping on your bed? Is it the guy next door mowing his lawn obnoxiously early? What is it that really gets you out of bed? 

Let me ask that a different way.

Wake Up On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz

How do you get up?

Are you dragging yourself out of your warm cozy bed? Are you asking yourself if it’s really true that it’s morning already? Are you cranky and don’t want to talk to anyone before you have had your first cup of coffee?  Are you waking up just because you have to get the kids to school? Are you waking up and dreading the day because you are going to a job you hate and are unsatisfied with? 

What is it that really gets you going? For so many people they don’t wake up because they want to, they wake up because they have to. 

So waking up because you have to, because you feel like you have to get up, go to work, get that paycheck, pay the mortgage, all this other stuff. Where is the sense of you, your true who, what wakes you up in the morning? The familiar phrase, “here we go again, another Monday morning.” 

Interesting fact, did you know that statistically, heart attack rates increase by 21% Monday mornings? People are literally dying to go to work! 

It actually starts Sunday evening, after the football game you start building that stress and anxiety about going to work tomorrow morning. 

Another alarming statistic is that 85% of the American public hates the job they are going to. Whether it’s not fulfilling, it’s not challenging you, it’s not in your best interest, it’s not really what you want to do. So why do it?

Going to a job you hate just sucks your energy away, it lowers your self-esteem, it raises your stress levels but we keep doing it. It robs you of your time. Realize we spend most of our time at our jobs. Why do we do it if we can’t stand being there? We’ve only got so many hours in any particular day, that’s the only thing that’s equal to all mankind. 

Are you working on your purpose and passion or are you working on somebody else’s? 

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

– Farrah Gray

You work your 9:00 to 5:00 and then you work your 5:00 to 9:00 where you can express what it is that truly is coming out of you. I understand everybody has different obligations – kids, challenges, bills to pay, a mortgage but when you take your purpose or your passion, your purpose is really your reason why, your passion comes out in what it is that you do and how you express that purpose. 

If you could just take that your purpose and your passion, package it, promote it, and profit from it, that’s where most people find the biggest discoveries. That’s where those that are the richest have gone. Think about Bill Gates, his whole reason was about putting a computer in every home that was running Windows. Steve Jobs, innovation.

What is it that’s getting you out of bed in the morning? Time just happens to slip on by when you are not waking up on purpose, a day goes by, a week goes by, years go by. And in order to see that look back on your life, think back a year.

And it’s easy to say that at the end of the year and especially around resolution time when everybody makes these new resolutions about how they are going to pay down their credit card debt, they are going to go on a diet and lose some weight, they are going to finally look for another job that’s more fulfilling. 

How many years have you made the same resolutions over and over again? It happens to all of us, it does. How many people have made the same resolution more than twice? A good portion. What is it that stops you from going forward on that? How do we keep going, how do we build up enough reasons why to keep going on that resolution?

Maybe that resolution doesn’t fit within your value system or what it is you really want to do. 

The day that you discover your “why” is a life-changing event and it’s really why are we all here, what are we doing, what did you come to this world for, what did you bring and how are you expressing that, how are you getting it out there? That’s really where Wake Up On Purpose came from is really every day we get to wake up, we get to choose what we do and how we do it.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

The Momentum of the Morning

Wake up on purpose

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1599139371653{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Have you ever experienced a morning that just didn’t start quite the way you thought it would?

You hit the snooze button, you think you are getting extra time in bed then you started the day off on the wrong foot, maybe you stub your toe and it set up the rest of the day to just suck. The morning sets the tone for the rest of the day!

Maybe you spilled coffee all over yourself right before you’re walking out the door or you left the coffee mug on top of the car and backed out of the driveway and fell off and spilled all over the place. How many rough mornings like these have you experienced:

  • The alarm was set for PM not AM and you were late 
  • Stubbed your toe walking around the bed
  • Hit the snooze button more than three times
  • Coffee didn’t brew at the right time
  • Got a speeding ticket on the way to work
  • Kids missed the bus
  • Kids forgot their lunch

Yeah, I think we’ve all had those days.

You see we’ve even had those weeks where Sunday or Monday kicked it off on the wrong foot maybe you got a ticket driving to work where you missed one of your kid’s practices and it set the tone for the week and you just had a rough week. You get to the end of the week and you are just fried saying, “Holy crap this week kicked my ass!”

Yeah…I’ve had a couple of those.

Hell, I’ve had months like that!

It was just a rough month that everything seems to just stack up and everything seemed to be against me. I’ve even heard people talk about a rough year and they can’t wait for this one to be over. They wish the year was over… they look back on all the experiences, all the negative things that are stacking up and wish away six or seven months.  They feel that there was nothing they could do about it, bad things just kept on happening.

We all get to choose what it is we focus on, but when we have mornings that start off on the wrong foot and we stay focused that, our thoughts continue to swirl around how mad or frustrated we are. Sometimes we even take it as a sign, a sign of how things are going to go for the day. 

Now we are projecting that forward and as we focus on it, more and more our thoughts swirl around it, and our feelings of aggravation, frustration, and stress continue to build. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s what we see more and more of when we do that throughout a day. 

Hoping that the next day is going to get better but we’re still focused on what frustrated us the day before. The more we think about it, the more upset we get, the more we focus on it, and as the saying goes, where the focus goes energy flows. 

We can build a day that we never wanted and that day turns into a week, those weeks to turn into months and finally, months turn into years. This is how people end up having a rough life. 

This all started because of how we woke up 

and stubbed our toe?!?!?!?

 

This is your start your morning in … “The F.A.S.T. Lane”

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Listen to your Heart

Listen to Your Heart - On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/-4zvQUZTo3E”][vc_single_image image=”1730″][/vc_column][/vc_row]Open Transcripthey I’m Dan Beldowicz bringing you another quote from the car today’s quotecomes from Thomas Carlyle he says it isthe heart always that sees before thehead can see now that’s an interestingquote because it talks about theconnection between your mind and yourheart and in when we we talked abouthaving uh you know following yourpassionate eating and having a burningdesire for something it truly comes fromyour heart because as soon as you havethis desire to do something and it sendsa message to your brain all sudden thisthinker this this mind this head ofyourswhich really only records all pastexperience is the only record of historyfor you and it’s just based oneverything that has happened suddenlysays well you can’t do that you’re notstrong enough you’re not fit enoughyou’re not thisyou’re not that it’s never been donebefore you why would you want to do thatyour mother never said it was a goodideayour heart’s desires are gettingtrampled on by your mind and in the therecord of the past that you have whetherit’s limiting beliefs that you’vedeveloped whether it’s the assumptionsaround what it is that you can andcannot do or if it’s just a deep-seatedgremlin where people or you specificallyare saying I’m not good enough that’snot meand that’s all in your head your head isdestroying your heart’s desire now thewhole key to all this is truly gettingyour heart in your head to be inalignment and that’s where meditationreally comes in because you’ve got toretrain the brain right we’ve spent aknown however old you areunless you’re aware and conscious ofwhat it is that you’re doing andpracticing and practicing this on adaily basis then more than likely yourbrain is conditioned in in just in ahabit of shutting down everything thatyour heart brings upso it’s always finding a reason of whyit is that you can’t do what it is thatyour heart wants to do so that’s wheremeditation really comes in is whereyou’ve got to sit down and train yourbrain your your brain is just a recordof the thoughts the feelings and whatactions were taken in the results yougot and then again how that made youfeel so if your brain is a constantrecord of your thoughts in in youremotions then we’ve got to be able totrain it in a way that you can startaligning what it is that you want tomake that a memoryand we do that through either guidedmeditation or honestly mental rehearsalrehearsing what it’s going to feel likewhen it is when you have what it is youreally want to have so when you havethis desire when you have something comeup you say you know what I’d like tohave that this is what I want this istruly Who I am and where it I would liketo be we’ve got to sit down and mentallystop we’ve got to pause our brain fromshutting it down and going into all ofthe reasons why we can’t have what it isthat we truly want and then start movinginto how do we get it don’t worry aboutthe how right ii just know that it ispossible in some way shape or form ripof our mind has to then start to sayokay well what if this happened what ifthis was a possibilitysuddenly that that stops the limitingbeliefs and assumptions that you can’tdo it it starts to open up the doors ofpossibility right and your brain isgonna find different things that anassociates way better that it alignswith your thinking so if you can startthinking on purpose and start saying itis plus and start seeking out maybeother people that have done it some someguides or mentors those that haveunlocked this path before in a team whatit is that you want to have and even ifyou can’t find it if it’s somethingthat’s totally outlandish way out thereand I and I’m talking like hey we’regoing to put a man on Mars type of outthere kind of thing that nobody’s everdone it before then you got to startdoing that you’ve got it you are able totrain your brain you’re the only onethat has control over your thoughts andthat’s where we got to start to reallystart controlling and thinking onpurpose not just allowing our brains toleverage the 60,000 thoughts that it hasevery single daythat are kneeling in alignment withwhere it is you want to go and what itis you want to haveso the heart is always going to seebefore the head campthe key to this is truly sitting down inretraining your brain to follow yourheart instead of constantly having yourheart follow your brain that’s wherechronic stress constantly comes from isthat feeling of out of alignment and notgetting what it is that you truly wantyou’ve got to be able to put that outthere you’ve got to be able to expressit and allow your heart to leaveand that’s where being on purpose trulycomes fromleading with your heart not just withyour head I’m Dan Beldowicz and ifyou want more of this head over to wakeup on purpose and grab the wake up upriver splinter is a free copy you candownload the PDF and it walks youthrough this blueprint and then breaksdown what it is that you truly want andhow you’re going to get it over the next90 days and it goes through veryspecifically aligning what it is youwant creating a vision so it takes overyour head and then creating a mappingstrategies on how you’re actually goingto do and do it and then execute itmonth by month week by week day by dayhour by hour half hour by half hour allthese specific things so that you canachieve your goals faster being biggerand grander so that you can finally havewhat it is you wantso head over to wake up on purpose calmand grab your free copy today