City Homesteading June 29th Update
Posted by Seth on June 29, 2010 under City Homestead Project, Living Your Dreams | 
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Seth in Garden
Whole tree construction of the carport.
Massive tomato jungle!
City Homestead April & May Progress
Posted by Seth on May 24, 2010 under City Homestead Project, Food, Living Your Dreams | Read the First Comment
Here is the saga of raised beds… as well as some tree removal and cute kid.
Big changes..
Ahh… the raised beds!
So many projects… such a long life!
How To Advance Your Career! An Interview with Jake Thomas
Posted by Seth on May 14, 2010 under Enlightened Entrepenuer, Living Your Dreams, Men's Mastery | Be the First to Comment
Hey men,
Here is the interview I did with Jake. I want as many men as possible to hear this, as it is filled with incredible nuggets of wisdom to help you achieve.
This was a stellar call, especailly about 15 minutes in when it heats up with the “let’s get real” questions.
yours in service,
SEth
ps. for more information, visit, http://tinyurl.com/2vlbwjs, or http://www.mensmasterycourse.com/
Lucas Seipp-Williams on Men’s Mastery: Best Year of Your Life
Posted by Seth on April 26, 2010 under Emotional Fitness, Generating Resourceful States, Human Potential, Living Your Dreams, Men's Mastery, Mind Training | Be the First to Comment
from Lucas Seipp-Williams, Baltimore Health Coach
www.BaltimoreHealthCoach.com
Luke with Happy Clients
In 2006, while attending the Institute for Integrative Nutrition a mentor taught me to make every year my “Best Year Yet.” It’s an exhilarating game that changes everything. You go from living into your probable future (looks a lot like it does now!) to actively creating your life from “anything is possible.”
How to play is simple, but it takes courage and a commitment to living life to the fullest. There are two simple steps:
#1 Regularly ask and honestly answer the question:
“What do I really want for my life?”
#2 Stop making excuses and get in action, NOW.
Following these two steps, I went from earning $700/month and never imagining I could run my own business to grossing up to $10,000/month with a business that I absolutely love in just a few years.
Tiny Steps or Big Breakthroughs?
At the beginning, before I knew how to ask for and accept high-level support, I was making mini, incremental steps forward in all areas of my life.
In 2009, I created massive transformations and breakthroughs.
The reason for my success?
I put into place Step#3: Get big time support from expert coaches. Over the years, I’ve had coaches and I’ve done programs, but nothing has come close to the support I got from Seth Braun and his Men’s Mastery Course.
Seth Braun’s coaching is exclusively designed for men like me – young men who are tired of repeating the same patterns, tired of getting results in one area of their lives, only to sacrifice all the others, and willing to do the inner and outer work necessary to create real and lasting breakthroughs.
Anything is Possible for Your Life
Literally, anything is possible for your life through those 3 steps:
#1 Vision the life you want to live.
#2 Stop making excuses and take immediate positive action.
#3 Get massive support to accelerate your growth and side-step unseen obstacles.
Vacation, Adventure, and Travel
When I launched my business, I worked almost every waking moment all year long. In 2009, I took over 2 months of vacation: 1 month of retreats in Costa Rica and 1 month for yoga training in the Bahamas. Not bad!
And I’ve created a business plan that will make this type of time off possible every year.
Fitness and Sports
I never thought I’d learn to surf, but it’s hard not to if you spend time on the beaches of Costa Rica. And I now have one of the most thrilling and rejuvenating hobbies to look forward to for the rest of my life.
And it may not sound like a big thing for most of you, but I played in my first adult sports league this past winter. When I was younger, I sustained major sports injuries. Until recently, that has prevented me from getting back into a league.
In 2009 I got crystal clear about my love of sports and took the necessary steps to rehab my body and get back in the game.
Service
Service is a major part of my life now. While in Costa Rica, I witnessed a monkey being electrocuted on a power line. I told the story to some friends, and now we run an annual fundraiser retreat to raise funds and awareness for the protection of the monkeys.
Costa Rica retreats are a favorite part of my year, but a favorite day of my week is Fridays, when I take off work to be of service to veterans who have been homeless and addicted to drugs or alcohol after sustaining Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in foreign wars.
A Legacy of Health and Vitality
I never thought I’d be able to take off a weekday (work day) to do, essentially, whatever I want. I can do this because each year I take my business and my coaching to the next level – refining whom I work with and the programs I offer. I’ve developed a one-of-a-kind system, the “15-Minute Meal System,” that supports busy people to master healthy, delicious and FAST cooking. It works well and happy clients are sending more and more people who are ready, willing and able to take their nutrition to the next level with my support.
Family
Being self-employed, I quickly became a work-a-holic. As you just read, I’ve made huge strides with life balance, but I never seemed to have the rich and fulfilling relationships with my Family – siblings, parents, grandparents, etc. In
2009 my intention to be a loving presence in my family caused some major breakthroughs for several f
amily members.
I even brought my
family together for the very first celebration of my deceased grandfather’s life, many years after his death. It was an incredibly healing experience for all, and would not have been possible without a commitment to living “My Best Year Yet.”
It Just Gets Better,
If You Want it To
I’m clear that every year of my life will be my “Best Year Yet:” more fun, more fulfillment, more success, more learning, more peace, more of all things good.
And I will continue to get expert support from people who will accelerate the process.
How About Your Life?
So, What do you want for your life? I mean, really want? And what would your “Best Year Yet” look like this year?
All you really need to know is that you want to play the game. And then get support. If you are a young professional like me, and you’re a man, you’ll want to seriously consider having my coach, mentor and friend Seth Braun in your corner. It’s made all the difference in the world for me.
Check out what Seth Braun and The Men’s Mastery Course could do for your life.
Why I Keep Going For My Dreams, And You Should Too
Posted by Seth on February 3, 2010 under Living Your Dreams | 3 Comments to Read
When I was 16, my dad died.
It was awful. He wasted away for 8 years from Type I diabetes. Amputation, Blindness, heart Attack, Dialysis, Stroke, the whole bag. But it wasn’t really diabetes that killed him. I think it was a broken heart.
I can’t say for sure. But it broke my heart to watch him go down like that.
My best friend at the time, Jon, he overdosed 7 years later. Heroin.
My step-father at that time, Charles, he committed suicide 16 years later. That was last year.
The three most important men in my life at age 16, are now all dead. Since I am alive, I think I owe it to myself and the memory of these men to go for my dreams. That is reason # one.
My grandfather immigrated here from Ukraine at age 7. He had 8 brothers and sisters, and his parents were escaping religious and political oppression. They had a hard time, couldn’t get in for two years at Ellis Island. Spent two years in Mexico. Came back through Ellis Island and settled a section in Auburn, Michigan. He worked hard. Worked at Defoe shipyard, worked “down to the Dow” (Chemical) and built three houses. He put his wife through school. Went to night school to learn english and get a high school diploma. Watched both his kids die. Cleared weeds after work to save money for the first house. And Reinhold Braun ministered to the sick, the dying, the shut-ins and the lonely for 40 years. He busted his butt so I could have a better life. That is reason # two.
My daughter. Period. That is reason # three.
My stepdaughter. Paloma has another father, but I am her dad.For whatever reason, he hasn’t had the where with all to be a part of her life. Now I ask you, should a kid miss out on having a dad? Sometimes going for my dreams means that I am away from home, speaking, traveling to a seminar. But going for my dreams makes me a solid person. I can be a present dad to both of my girls. That is reason # 4.
Ultimately, I am so freakin’ passionate about life. I am endlessly interested in everything. Like Oprah said, “you can do anything you want, you just can’t do everything at the same time.” So I figure, I’d better get after it. One thing at a time. Well, Ok. I end up going for three to five things at a time. I can’t help myself. Really.
I could go on. It might do me good. What are your reasons? The world needs dreamers. America needs dreamers. Your family needs dreamers. “If you have built your castles in the sky, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.” -Thoreau.
I believe this more strongly than most anything. Dreams make life rich, full and beautiful.Go for your dreams. More importantly, dare to open your heart to your dream. My dad stayed closed and it killed him. Be willing to feel the cold sting of rejection, criticism and disappointment. In the end, those individuals that dreamt big and failed will have no regrets. Those who kept the dream in their souls will have to wonder… did I lose the chance?
Why do you keep going? Please post your comments. This is an incredible question to ask.
Thank you,
Seth
Vision into Plan for 2010
Posted by Seth on January 8, 2010 under Human Potential, Living Your Dreams, Seth's Programs, Events and Seminars | Read the First Comment
Hey All,
It took about three weeks of weaving in and out of winter retreat, but I am DONE!
The final push happened tonight from 10 PM to 1 AM.
Of course I know that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. But with young kids and a home office, as many entrepreneurs would confirm, it can be heard to be without interruption. That is why I tend to write books from 10 PM to 1 AM as well.
Here is the video clip of the final 2010, 12 month plan. 12 months is the minimum required to have a business working for you! I teach some version of this in each seminar that I offer; The Awakened Life Program, The P3E Project: Indestructible Success and the Men’s Mastery Course.
There were three steps to this:
1. Learn from 2009. Time to review and analyze the previous year. Address weaknesses and faults as well as success and strengths. Brutally honest with praise and critique.
2. Look within. A process of going after any core issues that may get in the way of me playing big. Looking at beliefs and perspectives that limit creative thought. Then getting clear on the WHY questions, why do I want to do the work I do? What are my values? What do I want to contribute?
3. Create a Vision and make it a Plan. The natural next step is to take the inner expedition out onto the page. I mind map the year. What I know for sure. What is the top focus. What are secondary and supportive. What needs to be cut. Then, after working and reworking the mind map with fine detail of project planning, I take it to the 12 month wall calendar. I bought a $5 desk calendar from Wal-Mart, tore it into 12 months, and tacked it to the wall. Presto! A 3′ by 5′ wall calendar!
If you are wondering why I was whispering; my kids are asleep down the hall!
And the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWChHm6fY_0
This Month’s Affirmative Invocation
Posted by Seth on November 30, 2009 under Generating Resourceful States, Living Your Dreams | Be the First to Comment
I now claim total fulfillment of my potential.
Lord, create in me the vessel of your Grace.Make me an instrument of your Love.
I now command and demand that the highest and best that I have to give the world be made manifest in and through me.
I now claim financial mastery. I now command the power of my subconscious mind to align my life with the principles of wealth and power.
I am a source of wealth.
I am a creator of wealth.
I am a sustainer of wealth.
Wealth flows from the creative genius within me.
I use my time, my money and my attention wisely.
I use my wealth for good.
I contribute to my family, my community and the world.
I celebrate the creation of phenomenal, lavish, opulent, extraordinary wealth.
I say yes to life!
I am now in line with the Divine Plan for my family.
I allow the principles of Life to establish harmony in my family and I decide that it starts with me.
I am eager to see what great opportunity can and will emerge as I release the past, open to the possibility of empowerment and focus on the best in myself, my wife and my children.
Planning Your Success
Posted by Seth on October 20, 2009 under Awakened Life, Enlightened Entrepenuer, Living Your Dreams, P3E | Be the First to Comment
It was a successful first Awakened Life Seminar… and one of the big hits was the extensive working of the Dream>Vision>Goals>Plans>Action process.
For those of you in the Men’s Mastery Course, the P3E Project or Awakened Life, or anyone that is interested in skillfully giving 100%, here are some resources that I have found for thinking big.
1. 12 month, 4 month and 2 month wall calendars. Remarkable Calendars offers 3′ by 4′ wall calendars, about $40 each. Wall Calendars claims to have the largest at 10′ wide and about 4.5′ high, priced at about $340. Big price difference. At-A-Glance, probably the most well known, has 2′ by 3′ standard sizes at about $30 each.
2. GTD Large Work Flow Poster is the next level of organization from productivity expert, David Allen. This, along with one of the above calendars, will be my next important productivity investments.
But even with the best ideas, tools and techniques, it it still up to you to put in the study time, to upgrade your mind first, so that you can integrate a new way of being, then thinking, then doing.
How d0 you make the shift into increased ability to use these tools?
How do you get the focus and the drive in the first place?
Stay tuned for more questions to focus and educe the drive within you!
Napoleon Hill Vs. Napoleon Dynamite
Posted by Seth on October 1, 2009 under Awakened Health, Emotional Fitness, Enlightened Entrepenuer, Generating Resourceful States, Living Your Dreams, Men's Mastery, Mind Training, P3E | Read the First Comment
One of the greatest personal development gurus of all time. Phenomenal Success Principles Detailed In Precise Language. Woo Hoo! Can’t beat that.
-or-
One of the greatest feel good dance scenes of all time. Oh yeah! Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Shake it, Shake it, Shake it. Move that body nice and sweet and sexy!
Which one wins?
Actually, it is a trick question. IT IS BOTH!
Have a dance party now and focus on your dreams in life while affirming your own power and purpose!
Boogy and the Best
Purpose and Passion
Think Good and Feel Good
Honorable and Humorous
One Second of Your Life Changes Everything
Posted by Seth on September 22, 2009 under Awakened Health, Enlightened Entrepenuer, Integral Life Practice, Living Your Dreams, Men's Mastery, P3E | Be the First to Comment
Small Change Leads To Massive Results
When you are willing to give that extra .5%
When you are going just a little bit longer.
When you give just a little more.
Loving when you just don’t feel like, one second more.
What can happen when you give it just a little more?
Michael Phelps won the gold by 1/100th of a second.
This made the difference between 8 and 7 gold medals.
This made the difference between tying the world record for gold medals at the Olympics and breaking the record.
1/100th of a second made Michael Phelps historic. Epic.
Where is your 1/100th of a second?
Seth
