YoYo’s World

I have always read and learned that when visualizing a goal, you must feel as if you already have it. Go into the shoes of the self of tomorrow and really feel who you are when you have achieved your goal.

I have found often times, it to be kind of difficult to do this visualization because I kind of know what I want, but not exactly. This video I found on www.YouTube.com was very interesting because it offered an alternative approach that can help if you feel you are a bit stagnant and don’t really know what you want. It shows a different angle you can take to look at your goals. Instead of visualizing yourself as a wealthy individual, ask yourself, “Why is abundance attracted to me?”

Watch for more.  Here is the url if the video isn’t working properly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXRDEpjbug&NR=1

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For the past week and a half I have been having knee problems that are progressively getting worse. This probably the first time I’ve decided not to work out because of my knees. I’ve been on my computer for about an hour looking at exercises I could do that wouldn’t really require the use of my knees, but I realized there’s probably something more important to do, align my body first.

A few months ago I read Egoscue’s Method to Health Through Motion, written by Peter Egoscue. It was a physical therapy book that talked about joint alignment and how it is pivotal to have correct alignment in order to avoid injuries. This book says that I have a knee problem because I have misalignment in my hips and I have misalignment in my hips because of my shoulders. Nice. Egoscue goes on to say that the only way to permanenting solve this problem, get it at its source, is to align the shoulders and then ultimately realign your hips.

 The crazy thing is that he said it could take months for real results to pop up. This has got me a little worried and frustrated because that means I’ll be out of commission for a very long time and the worst nightmare of any athlete is to lose their athleticism. To try and solve this problem, I’m going to try and come up with ways to exercise and keep my fitness, while also allowing my knees to rehabilitate and come back into proper alignment. I’ve scoped the internet and found some interesting stretches and exercises and I’m going to begin to outline a training program for myself.

I also plan to talk to my Personal Training professor about this today after class, so before you know it I’ll be posting information on knee pain and rehabilitation. I’ve known many people who have suffered tremendously from knee injury and many can’t participate in their sport like they used to; the second worse nightmare for every athlete.

Within the next few weeks, like I said, I will be compiling any and all information on knee injury and methods and strategies to correct the problem at its source. So stay tuned for that because the information will prove to be invaluable, especially if you are correctly having knee problems or you have a history.

Take it easy and be safe and healthy!

-YoYo

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The other day I was listening to this marketing tele-seminar called Guru Mastermind. I was giving this audio file my partially full attention because I hoped to indulge myself with a plethora of marketing knowledge and experience. Interestingly enough I learned more about life than I did marketing and how it really came down to having a good life actually means having good marketing, if you want. The catch that adds the twist and shouts to this new life lesson was having a good life no matter what kind of life you lead…mindset!  

Well, as the two gentlemen were talking, they were discussing their lives in the past and what got them to where they were now, which was sitting on the beach in California watching a beautiful sunset, as told by Frank Kern. Eben Pagan, the gentleman being interviewed, was asked by Frank, in a nutshell, what his thought process was; what were his thoughts and beliefs? Eben answered with a question, “Is the world a friendly place?”  Probably one of the most important questions you can ask yourself, and has really been the most life changing for me, because it really encompasses how you interact with the world. Whenever a loved one passes away, when you break ties with an old friend, or even when the love of your life cheats on you, was all of that just a conspiracy by the universe to make you feel bad? It must be. How can you be going through a divorce and be burying your beloved mother all at the same time? That must be cosmic convergence pointing at you and laughing with her buddies time, money and cellulite saying “Look! I got another one!” Yes, that was dramatic, but dramatic with a purpose. (What can I say? I’m a story teller at heart.)  

As soon as I heard Eben say that, I went the entire day finding myself, in what I perceive ‘undesirable consequences,’ but what took me aback was how I asked myself that question each time; is the world a friendly place? I couldn’t help but smile each time because every single moment that passed where I looked at the world and said, “Hey buddy what’s up? How’s it shakin’ today?” I knew that I was living the life I wanted to live all along. *Ding Ding Ding* Rockets flew, birds soared, (gas)milk was cheaper and all of sudden those gosh darn light bulb jokes made sense; laugh a little, live a little.  

It was one of the most profound changes I think I have ever made and let’s hope it’s not the last one. It was so alleviating to realize that no one was out to get me, so I stopped pointing, staring and crying wolf all the same time. It took too much effort to pursue negative feelings and accuse the universe of a minor setback that I was having with myself. It was my responsibility to fix my circumstances the whole time because I was the only that was capable of doing it, period. No ifs, ands, buts or denial was going to change the life that I had and it certainly wasn’t going to shape that beautiful diamond in the ruff into what I’ve always wanted it to be. The irony of it all was that the uncut diamond I though I saw was really the beautiful 20 billion times infinity karat honker I wanted the whole time.  

The moral of the story is that if you look at the world as a friendly and happy place rather than someone always trying to get back at you, a sense of lightness will develop inside you. There won’t be any need to overreact with little situations and you won’t take the world so seriously. Looking at the world as being good rather than bad let’s you live life.  

So stop being a conspiracy theorist and enjoy yourself gosh darnit! 

My regards,  

YoYo

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