Squirrel

Focus On Purpose

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!

What gets you up in the morning?

Wake Up On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz

“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.

The Momentum of the Morning

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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”

Frustrated – Anxious – Stressed – Tired

Listen to your Heart

Listen to Your Heart - On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz
Listen to your Heart
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hey I’m Dan Beldowicz bringing you
 
another quote from the car today’s quote
comes from Thomas Carlyle he says it is
the heart always that sees before the
head can see now that’s an interesting
quote because it talks about the
connection between your mind and your
heart and in when we we talked about
having uh you know following your
passionate eating and having a burning
desire for something it truly comes from
your heart because as soon as you have
this desire to do something and it sends
a message to your brain all sudden this
thinker this this mind this head of
yours
which really only records all past
experience is the only record of history
for you and it’s just based on
everything that has happened suddenly
says well you can’t do that you’re not
strong enough you’re not fit enough
you’re not this
you’re not that it’s never been done
before you why would you want to do that
your mother never said it was a good
idea
your heart’s desires are getting
trampled on by your mind and in the the
record of the past that you have whether
it’s limiting beliefs that you’ve
developed whether it’s the assumptions
around what it is that you can and
cannot do or if it’s just a deep-seated
gremlin where people or you specifically
are saying I’m not good enough that’s
not me
and that’s all in your head your head is
destroying your heart’s desire now the
whole key to all this is truly getting
your heart in your head to be in
alignment and that’s where meditation
really comes in because you’ve got to
retrain the brain right we’ve spent a
known however old you are
unless you’re aware and conscious of
what it is that you’re doing and
practicing and practicing this on a
daily basis then more than likely your
brain is conditioned in in just in a
habit of shutting down everything that
your heart brings up
so it’s always finding a reason of why
it is that you can’t do what it is that
your heart wants to do so that’s where
meditation really comes in is where
you’ve got to sit down and train your
brain your your brain is just a record
of the thoughts the feelings and what
actions were taken in the results you
got and then again how that made you
feel so if your brain is a constant
record of your thoughts in in your
emotions then we’ve got to be able to
train it in a way that you can start
aligning what it is that you want to
make that a memory
and we do that through either guided
meditation or honestly mental rehearsal
rehearsing what it’s going to feel like
when it is when you have what it is you
really want to have so when you have
this desire when you have something come
up you say you know what I’d like to
have that this is what I want this is
truly Who I am and where it I would like
to be we’ve got to sit down and mentally
stop we’ve got to pause our brain from
shutting it down and going into all of
the reasons why we can’t have what it is
that we truly want and then start moving
into how do we get it don’t worry about
the how right ii just know that it is
possible in some way shape or form rip
of our mind has to then start to say
okay well what if this happened what if
this was a possibility
suddenly that that stops the limiting
beliefs and assumptions that you can’t
do it it starts to open up the doors of
possibility right and your brain is
gonna find different things that an
associates way better that it aligns
with your thinking so if you can start
thinking on purpose and start saying it
is plus and start seeking out maybe
other people that have done it some some
guides or mentors those that have
unlocked this path before in a team what
it is that you want to have and even if
you can’t find it if it’s something
that’s totally outlandish way out there
and I and I’m talking like hey we’re
going to put a man on Mars type of out
there kind of thing that nobody’s ever
done it before then you got to start
doing that you’ve got it you are able to
train your brain you’re the only one
that has control over your thoughts and
that’s where we got to start to really
start controlling and thinking on
purpose not just allowing our brains to
leverage the 60,000 thoughts that it has
every single day
that are kneeling in alignment with
where it is you want to go and what it
is you want to have
so the heart is always going to see
before the head camp
the key to this is truly sitting down in
retraining your brain to follow your
heart instead of constantly having your
heart follow your brain that’s where
chronic stress constantly comes from is
that feeling of out of alignment and not
getting what it is that you truly want
you’ve got to be able to put that out
there you’ve got to be able to express
it and allow your heart to leave
and that’s where being on purpose truly
comes from
leading with your heart not just with
your head I’m Dan Beldowicz and if
you want more of this head over to wake
up on purpose and grab the wake up up
river splinter is a free copy you can
download the PDF and it walks you
through this blueprint and then breaks
down what it is that you truly want and
how you’re going to get it over the next
90 days and it goes through very
specifically aligning what it is you
want creating a vision so it takes over
your head and then creating a mapping
strategies on how you’re actually going
to do and do it and then execute it
month by month week by week day by day
hour by hour half hour by half hour all
these specific things so that you can
achieve your goals faster being bigger
and grander so that you can finally have
what it is you want
so head over to wake up on purpose calm
and grab your free copy today