Jesse Brisendine is an internationally recognized life coach, personal trainer, speaker, and author who motivates, educates and inspires people worldwide.
Jesse has worked with 1000's of people from all over the world. Fortune 500 business leaders, Hollywood celebrities, entrepreneurs, musicians, and many more enlist Jesse’s help to ensure their success in business, relationships, health, and in life.
Jesse's passion is helping you live your most fulfilling life.
Today's blog is a little different and I felt, due to the nature of the subject matter, it is deserving of a video as I don't think I would have properly captured all I wanted to say with typed words.
I hope the video connects with you. I have included the mentioned links below.
We place a value on everything in life. We use two primary commodities to assign value to things: Time and Money.
Those are, for most of us, the simplest, most tangible ways to place value on something.
If I were to ask you a few questions I am willing to bet you can answer them fairly quickly:
How much would you spend on a new car? A designer pair of jeans? A shirt? A new pair of shoes?
You have a picture in your head of each of those and a dollar amount that you have already determined they are worth.
What
if I changed the question just a little bit. Instead of asking you
about tangible things like a car, what if I changed and asked you about
things that are not quite so tangible.
How much would you
spend on your health? Your happiness? The relationships with your
friends and family? Waking up feeling excited vs waking up feeling
angry about having to wake up?
These questions are a little tougher to answer, right?
Why
is it that it is so easy for us to put a value on material things and
so challenging for us to put a value on the things that really should
matter most?
I the below video I talk about this and why it is so important for you to place a high value on yourself.
What are your key takeaways from today's blog? What is your value? I would l love to hear your thoughts. Please leave a comment below.
#CarpeDiem,
Jesse
P.S.
I believe You are Worth a Tremendous Amount! I Believe You Deserve to Live a Life Free From Fear, Pain, Stress, and Anxiety. I Believe You are NOT Meant to Spend Your Days Stuck and Unable to Move Forward. I Believe that You are Fully Deserving of All the Happiness, Joy, and Fulfillment that Life Has to Offer.
If you believe this too, and would like some help on your journey, click the following link, fill out the short application, and we can set up a time to talk and figure out exactly how I can help you: http://www.jessebrisendine.com/life-coaching/application.php
Hope this blog finds you doing well and living a life you are thrilled to be living. :)
If you have goals, if you have dreams, one of the inevitability's in life is that you will likely, at some point, run into a wall or obstacle on your way to achieving Your dreams.
The walls we run into, or more specifically, the walls we create, can be nothing less than dream destroyers if we allow them to be.
Personally, I have seen far to many amazing people sacrifice to many days, weeks, months, and years of their lives to these walls.
Life does not have to be that way, nor is life meant to be lived "stuck" on the side of the wall you do not want to be on.
To help you fix this, I recently hosted a "Facebook Live" event called Breaking Through Walls.
Several hundred people from all over the world attended the live event, and the feedback I have been getting from them has been fantastic.
I shared with them a simple five step system for breaking through the "Walls" of life, and I want to make sure you have access to this information too.
To watch, all you need to do is click the link below (You will have to be logged into facebook).
I hope you find value in this training.
Here's a quick overview of the five steps:
Identify
Find a Weakness
Gather Your Resources for Before and After the Breakthrough
"I wish I was happier...," "If only I was happier, then____ (fill in the blank)"
Do
either of the above sound familiar? Have you ever heard friends,
family, co-workers, or yourself say either of these phrases or
something similar?
I know I sure have!
Happiness is something we all want yet it seems to be so elusive for so many.
The ironic part of happiness is that it is available anywhere, at anytime, and is unlimited in the amount of it you can have.
How is that so?
Well,
put simply, happiness isn't a thing, it is a state of mind. Things can
stimulate our brain to produce "happy chemical's," things like images
of puppies playing, little kids trying to walk, old people in love; are
some universal images that conjure up the happy thoughts inside of us
all.
We have the ability to be happy all the time. We really
do! We just have to make it a point to train our mind to focus on and
look for thoughts, things, ideas that make us feel happy vs. the
opposite.
What makes you happy?
In the video below I discuss happiness and how to create it.
I hope it helps you bring more happiness into your life.
You have heard all the phrases, "Dream Big," "If you can dream it you can achieve it," and so on.
Dream quotes, dream expressions, dream sayings... lets face it, they are everywhere.
As a kid one of the first dream statements I can remember is Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I have a Dream Speech."
Why
is the "Dream" expression such a powerful one? What is it about
telling someone to go after their dreams that makes the statement so
much more powerful vs saying go after your goals?
Would Dr.
King's speech have had the same impact on us if he would have replaced
the word "dream" with the word "goal?" I don't think it would have. I
have a goal just does not have the same ring to it as does I have a
dream.
You see dreams are something we can all relate to. And they are something we all had well before we even had words.
Many
of us get shy when it comes to setting goals, we believe we can't
achieve certain ones and we are not deserving of others. With dreams we
do not limit ourselves. We can dream the biggest dreams without fear,
without judgement after all... it is just a dream right?
I
believe that having dreams, big dreams, dreams for what you want in
life, dreams for what you want to achieve are so so so important.
I also believe that You are never to young to start dreaming those dreams.
A couple years ago I recorded a video about the importance of dreaming and making those dreams come true.
As I re-watch the video today I am thankful that I started dreaming about being a speaker and coach long before I did it.
What is a dream of yours?
What action can you take, today, to move towards that dream?
They give structure to our reality and they can break it apart
They melt hearts and they can break them
They sing praises and they can inflict pain
They build you up and they can tear you down
How much thought do you put into the words you use?
Before you speak, do you consider the affect your words will have on your life, on the lives of others?
A few weeks ago, I can across the short story below - it is an excellent example of the power of words.
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him
a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must
hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy
had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he
learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily
gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper
than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the
boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the
father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he
was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was
finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said,
"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The
fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a
scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.
It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still
there."
The little boy then understood how powerful his words
were. He looked up at his father and said "I hope you can forgive me
father for the holes I put in you."
"Of course I can," said the father.
It's not always anger, it is your actions in general. There are no
"fresh starts" in life. There is no new beginning. Forgiveness comes
easy for many people but the scars of the past, they never go away.
Watch what you do today, because sometimes the price isn't worth the
reward.
