Don’t wait any longer. Begin to transform your life today and create a life beyond ordinary.

I have a couple of question for you. “Are health and happiness important to you?”

Health and happiness are not just buzz words of the 21st Century.  Statistically, they are most people’s ultimate goal in life, and one’s that seem to be most elusive as well.

Another question I have is, “What would a healthy and happy life look like to you and how would you design it?” I hope that by the time you’re through reading this you have a better idea as to how to move forward in actually achieving your vision.

My goal is to give you some resources to create the life you love.

Now I can be a catalyst, but ultimately it is up to you to have the self-motivation to take the actions. You have to intentionally start living that healthy, happy life you so desire.Let’s take a look at a process you can implement immediately to kick-start your transformation.  Let’s start by breaking your life down into 6 simple areas.

They are:

1. Spiritual
2. Financial
3. Physical
4. Emotional
5. Intellectual
6. Family

Now, take a few minutes and prioritize these 6 areas. Identify which one is your #1 area of importance, what is number 2, 3,4,5 and 6. To help you determine your priorities, ask yourself, “Which area, if I focused on it for the next 90 days would have the greatest impact in transforming my life?”

Stop now and do the exercise. Don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about it. You probably have an instinctive answer as to your priorities. Studies actually show that you will get the same answers in 30 seconds as you would in 30 minutes. So have some fun and let’s do it now!

What is the # 1 area of life that you are most passionate about improving?

Ask yourself:

• “Why is this important to me?
• “How will I feel when I achieve the change?”
• “How will my life be different?
• “What impact will this change have on the other areas of my life?”

It’s true that all 6 of these areas are intertwined and are related to each other. We know that poor health has a negative impact on our ability to create financial stability. Likewise, unstable finances puts pressure on our family life, causes stress, and consequently health challenges.

I’m suggesting that we join hands today and decide to change our lives together. It will be fun and you’ll be filled with energy and enthusiasm as you start the transformation with massive momentum. The Big Mo! Everyone is looking for it, so few find it and  when they do struggle to maintain it. You will maintain Big Mo, because you have a massive WHY. Get in touch at the deepest emotional level and you will achieve great result.

Consider this…

Together we can achieve so much more than we can as individuals. Studies show that health and happiness have at their epicenter a strong community of like minded individuals. A community that supports each other when that pesky human weakness, procrastination, starts to weasel it’s way into Big Mo’s house.

To be brutally honest, I have not lived up to my potential this year. I’ve been able to accomplish many things that I committed to back in January, but certainly not everything. So I’m not waiting any longer! I have adjusted and re-fired my passion and commitment to achieving my health and fitness goals before the end of 2017.

One of the ways I’m doing this, is that I now have accountability partners in different areas of my life. So consider aligning yourself with a like-minded individual who can support your transformation process. Like me, you may need multiple coaches and accountability partners based on the area you are trying to improve.

So who is going to join me?

How are you going to attack your goals? What is your process for creating a relationship with Big Mo?

We can grow in two ways.

First, we can grow in awareness. This is the cornerstone of getting emotionally and physically healthy. It is that growth, in conjunction with action which will facilitate the shift toward the achievement of our dream lifestyle.

Second, we can stay on our current path of frustration and dissatisfaction and fail to achieve our lifestyle goals. Which do you choose? Where will you be in the months to come?

Take a few minutes to answer some of the questions I’ve posed in this post and see what decisions you come up with.

Keep on learning, keep on growing and keep on leading yourself to the life you love! Let me know how I can help and how you are progressing.

On my June 8th post I wrote about a chance meeting my son and I had with a young artist who created clay sculptures and ultimately bronze casting of famous blues artists. I indicated that we had met in 2001 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California and that I had lost the contact information that he had given me.

Well, again, in the words of the late Paul Harvey, “Here’s the rest of the story.”

My wonderful wife, began looking through the web and trying to seek out who this artist might be. We found one that seemed to have the proper credentials and I sent him the following e-mail…

Daniel, I’m curious if you were in Anaheim, House of Blues working on a John Lee Hooker piece for your blues collection around 2001? If so we may have met and I lost the phone and address you gave me. I just wrote a blog about that meeting. Love to know if it was you.

The following day I received this reply…

“Yes, Greg, that was me. You were there with your son?”

Well needless to say I was quite thrilled to have found my artist after all this time, his name is Daniel Edwards, and he has become a very successful artist. He has sculpted many celebrities over the years and so I feel very fortunate to have had this chance meeting with him so many years ago. A meeting that, much like Daniel’s art, shaped me through the experience.

So, now what? What are the messages here?

Pay attention to the thoughts that you have. Often times the ideas that we have come and go and most often we don’t take the time to acknowledge or record the “inspiration”.

The idea for my previous post came to me as I was reflecting on a sculpture that my son had created in high school. It’s a sculpture of a  shoe and I’ve always seen it as a metaphor for the idea that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. The “inspiration” came to me and I paid attention to it.

It’s called inspiration, because it comes to you IN-SPIRIT. I believe it’s coming from a higher source and that it’s something that either has significance or leads to something significant.

By writing about my experience of meeting Daniel, I was “inspired” to go searching for him. It became a little mini adventure for me. It created a higher energy within me that was multiplied once Daniel responded that it was in-fact him.

What do we put off that, if we did it immediately would, in the process give us a greater degree of energy?

Who from your historical past have you been wanting to contact but have just put it off? Go do it NOW! There’s no telling what adventure might come from it.

So there you go, The Rest of the Story. Thank you for indulging me in this little trip down memory lane. Stay connected to your inspiration and just remember, we are all pieces of clay. We are being molded each and every day with the challenges and adventures we face and each experience shapes us into who we are now and who we will become.

Choose to be an adventurer and let your life be shaped by those experiences.

Questions to Ponder: What events have molded you into who you are today? Have you taken the time to journal how The Master Potter has been shaping you? What are the gifts and talents that YOU have that you could be using to help shape a better world?

What really excites you in life? Do you feel you’re going down the same highway as everyone else? I hope today’s Message From the Road will inspire you take a different path.