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Your Amazing Life!Welcome to Thursdays Exchange with Johnnie UrbanWe have Johnnie Urban with Wonderful Life Learning Company and Sensitive Authentic Speaker. Johnnie helps people power their message, attract clients. She makes a difference by teaching people to convert easily and expand their business. Welcome to Your amazing Life, Johnnie thanks for being here
Ken: Tell us who you were in the beginning and how you got to where you are now?
Johnnie: A new highly certified Life Success Coach struggling to grow my business. I was told to network and tell everyone I knew that I could help them. It...
2021-05-2725 minYour Amazing Life!Welcome to Thursdays Exchange with Christopher SalemKen:
We have Christopher Salem, today and I am so excited about this. Christopher is an Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Amazing Keynote speaker, Radio show host, and an international best seller award winning writer. Welcome to the Show Christopher! What was it that happened that started this journey for you?
Christopher:
This goes back 22 years ago roughly almost 22 years ago today. I had a life-changing moment that happened between myself and my father. You know prior to that my life was really out of control, my business was up and down. I lived...
2021-05-1323 minYour Amazing Life!Welcome to Thursdays Exchange with Tad StephensTad Stevens impresses me as a marketing strategy guru, He is fantastic at online advertising! He is a SCORE Mentor. He puts his money, where his mouth is with an incredible money back guarantee. He does exceptional high-ticket funnels in 15 days. Help me welcome Tad, it is great to have you with us today.
Ken: So, Tad, everyone wants an amazing life but not everyone gets there, what do you think it takes to get to an amazing life?
Tad: That is an interesting question because just a while back I was trying to answer...
2021-05-0622 minYour Amazing Life!All You Need is Love? Fact or Fiction?Just from the title I bet the Beatles song rang through your head. “All You Need is Love, da, da,da,da,daaa” According to Maslow and others there are a few other needs. But love is on the list and pretty high up there! While love may not be the only thing you need without it, life would be bitter and worthless. But John Lennon was on to something when he said “We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our abilit...
2021-04-2713 minYour Amazing Life!Today is Thursday's Exchange with Tyler WatsonKen:
Tyler is an incredible award-winning life coach, a marketing strategy Guru, and he is fantastic at developing the sales process in people. In Monday’s podcast we talked about learning to sail a ship and how it takes wind and waves to sail. So what struggles in your life have helped you to get to where you are?
Tyler:
Well I would say every single struggle that I've ever been through got me to where I am today. specifically some of the bigger ones, like earlier on, was actually my parents divorce an...
2021-04-2225 minYour Amazing Life!Welcome to Thursdays Exchange with Evelyn GerberKen:
Evelyn has a degree in biology with a chemistry minor. She has studied healthy eating for years. Thanks for being here today, welcome Evelyn. So glad to have you here.
Evelyn:
I hope this goes as well as it usually goes. I know how much you prepare for your podcast.
Ken:
So tell me about your history and why you started getting into health?
Evelyn:
My mother has been on every single diet on the planet, except possibly I don't think she was...
2021-04-1522 minYour Amazing Life!Dissolving Into a Disgusting Pile of GooWelcome to “Your Amazing Life” and thanks for being here for the last year. Our anniversary is coming up on April 22. There are a few powerful ways you can support us. First is to subscribe to it and leave a rating/ review and leave your top takeaways from what we talked about, also interact with the community on the facebook page. Next, Be a hero to your friends and family and share it with them… Lastly, go to anchor.fm/ken-gerber/support and sponsor it. Your support makes a massive difference.
So what the heck am I r...
2021-04-1312 minYour Amazing Life!Welcome to Thursdays Exchange with Mac Griffin.Ken:
So to start with, give us a little background of who you are and what you do.
Mac:
I am a father. I am a husband of 16 years to a wonderful wife and I am a veteran of the United States Army, after about nine and a half years and with two tours under my belt. I am a voiceover actor that helps businesses have a digital voice in this digital world.
Ken:
What makes your life amazing?
Mac:
I would definitely say my...
2021-04-0821 min
Your Amazing Life!Thursdays Exchange with Mike McLaughlin Graduate of the "You Have Value" ProgramKen:
To begin with Mike I wanted to ask what was going on and what were some of the things that you were struggling when you started the “I Have Value” program?
Mike:
Pretty darn bad PTSD That I learned to cope with. We attacked it with no chemistry involved, which you know for once something finally worked with it. But I was also having pretty severe marital problems as well. Most of those were because of PTSD, depression, bipolar (type 2), and I am a rapid cycler. Which Ken can attest to he’s seen...
2021-03-3124 minYour Amazing Life!Welcome to Thursdays Exchange with Katie Rawlings.Katie: Hi I'm Katie I am a grateful recovering addict, I am a grateful sober person, I have been free from cutting for 8 months, I've been staying off of hard drugs for three and a half years and I have been clean off of weed for 8 months.
Ken: So what were some of the things that you were hoping to learn when we started talking?
Katie: I wanted to learn to love myself, I hated myself before I met you.
Ken: How did that come about? How did you start hating yourself?
2021-03-2518 min
Your Amazing Life!Does Shame and Pain Keep You Lonely?I speak to many people and I often hear the same thing, I asked how they were and they said “I am fine.” I’m sure you‘ve heard that from people and you have questioned if they were telling you the truth. That is what I experienced. When I look at what they say and the body language there is a disconnect in the story.
The reasons it looks like they are not “fine” is they have an unmet need. We as human beings must get these next needs met in some way. According to Tony Robbins...
2020-11-0600 minYour Amazing Life!Little Known Secrets from Marc Mero.Marc Merco is a Boxer and Wrestler. He tells a great story about his past. In high school he got into drugs and alcohol. He would come home late and his Mom would be waiting up. He didn’t get it for many years but found that it is about who you spend your time with that makes you. His mom always believed in him. It is a story that you can probably relate to. There are times when people want my time or attention and it is not convenient for me. There are times when I put other pe...
2020-11-0500 minYour Amazing Life!A Revolutionary Way to Feel Better in 4 Easy StepsSo one of my clients was being bullied and as part of that bully she is told that she is ugly. Many times others around her like parents and family members would tell her she is beautiful. Many people’s reaction to those who believe poorly of themselves is to tell them the opposite. How does this work in life?
Many times people will disregard information that is contrary to the belief they hold. As an example have you ever looked for something, you knew or were told where to find it and yet you we...
2020-11-0400 minYour Amazing Life!What are the Magic Ingredients in Wanting to Live?I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ‘life'. – Maya Angelou
Many people including those who have been very successful in their chosen field, have felt like there is nothing to live for. They have either attempted or been successful in taking themselves out of the game of life. These people were unable to cope with their emotions and the pain they were experiencing. They struggled to deal with their story. Some are incredible people like John Belushi, or Heath Leger both of which died of a drug overdose and Robin...
2020-11-0300 minYour Amazing Life!Healthy Life Changing Secrets To Having The Life You Want!If you think about it your brain is always on. Day or night asleep or wide awake your brain is working. It takes care of your thoughts, movements, breathing and heartbeat. 24/7. Your brain requires a great deal of fuel constantly. Not all fuel is the same in how it burns. If you have a gas car and put diesel fuel in it. You are going to have to have the fuel drained and replaced, because it will not run your car. Same for your brain. You can eat and be full all day long but your brain can be...
2020-10-3000 minYour Amazing Life!The Willpower Fallacy and the Secret to Overcoming it.A study in 2011 reported that the respondents of Stress in America survey reported lack of willpower as the greatest obstacle to change. For some reason we think that we can at times of low mental energy have these stores of will power to overcome these bad habits. We think that all that is required to exercise, save money, stop drinking, quit smoking, and to accomplish our goals is to use our will power.
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal calls this the “I won’t power.” McGonigal is a frequent lecturer at Stanford University and the author of “The Willpowe...
2020-10-2100 minYour Amazing Life!Arnold Schwarzenegger on 6 Remarkable Principles for Success.So here is the Terminators first charge: trust yourself. I think this secret as simple as it sounds has some meat to it. So deep, deep down, who do you want to be, not what do you want to do. Who do you want to be is a deeper question.
The second statute is to “break some rules, but not the law” There are so many rules in life about everything It is not possible to be a Maverick if you're too well behaved. Break the rules that hold you in.
Principle number three: don...
2020-10-0800 minYour Amazing Life!The Three Part Secret to Bring Revolutionary Success to Your LifeThere are 3 parts we need for successful action in our lives. We as humans, are based on the social settings and beliefs in which we live and that we adopt. If you doubt this there is plenty of science to back it up. People living in the same household have almost the same gut biome. Some people that are on welfare have often been so for generations. We pass on to our children beliefs of income level, education, social context, interpersonal trust, sense of belonging, racial inequality, and even incarceration. You can look at any group of people, or...
2020-10-0600 minYour Amazing Life!An Amazing 15 Year Old Girl is Changing our World.Today I wanted to add to a young girls Voice. Avye Couloute (Girls Into Coding) a 15 yr old girl started a community interest company (similar to a non profit) to encourage your girls to get into coding. She had been studying it since she was 7 and noticed that she was one of the only girls in the room at many of the training sessions. She is on a mission to engage 1000 girls ever year. At 10 years old she went from attending the events to preparing and delivering them. The things she covers in her workshops are coding, physical computing...
2020-10-0200 minYour Amazing Life!The Dangers of Fame, from interviews with Paris Hilton!So Paris Hilton has been through many things. She states “I was having really severe nightmares,” Hilton told Vanity Fair. Paris stated “I was kidnapped and got sent away to a school in Utah... There were just these two big men coming into my room in the middle of the night, literally grabbing me and carrying me from my bed. I thought that this was like something from the movie Taken.” Hilton claims that what happened at Provo was even worse; that staff inflicted verbal, mental, emotional, and physical abuse on her—even punishing her with up to 20 hours of s...
2020-10-0110 minYour Amazing Life!Seven Ways to Control your Life!Sacrifice= Giving up what you want now for what you want most. There are only three things that you and I can control:
Actions: the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim.
Reactions: an action performed or a feeling experienced in response to a situation or event.
Mindset: the established set of attitudes held by someone.
Those set us up for what we will have.
Will we act for what we want now, or what we want most? Life is rigged to give us one or the other...
2020-09-3010 minYour Amazing Life!How to have Your Amazing Body!So Last Thursday in episode 77 we talked about taking care of yourself physically. And I want to expound on that. The first thing to do is to account for your fitness level.
Resting heart rate – to assess aerobic fitness.
Counting the number of beats of your resting heart rate (RHR) is a useful way of indicating your fitness 60 or less is preferable.
Push-ups – to assess upper-body muscular endurance.
Push-ups are a great indicator of your upper body strength 25 to 29 for men / 20 to 24 for women = Good
Head turning – to assess neck flexibility.
12-minute walk/run – to assess cardio c...
2020-09-2909 minYour Amazing Life!Seven Actions to Be Happier, Healthier, and More Connected.If you have any topics you would like me to talk message me through Anchor.fm/ken-gerber and I will address them in future podcasts. Please join our private Facebook group @(www.facebook.com/groups/youramazinglifepodcast/)
The way to improve your life is to consistently make choices that will make your life better. It is made better one choice at a time. The reality is, it’s the little things we do and the little decisions we make add up and have a huge impact on us. To improve your life, start out with small an...
2020-09-2513 minYour Amazing Life!A Simple, Yet Powerful Way to Remove Unwanted Thoughts!Ever had a thought that kept eating at you? One that creates stress and you can’t seem to get past? Sometimes these thoughts come in as you are laying in bed, or in the shower, maybe even when you are driving. These might have even been haunting you for months or years. They seem to come out of nowhere, Right? They can cause a great deal of distress. You might even fear that you may commit the act that is playing across your mind. It is possible that you think the thought means you are broken or bad....
2020-09-2411 minYour Amazing Life!Harness your Fears, and Transform Them into Strengths!If you have any topics you would like me to talk message me through Anchor.fm and I will address them in future podcasts. Please join our private Facebook group.
Most Fears can be divided up into three different things
Fear of Failure: Failing can elicit feelings such as disappointment, anger, frustration, sadness, regret, and confusion.
Fear of Success: Success can elicit feelings such as risk, putting oneself out there, and might be linked to past traumatic experiences.
Fear of Judgement: This fear of being judged is you, judging yourself AND the other...
2020-09-2310 min
Your Amazing Life!What Are The Three Undeniable Must Do’s for Happiness?If you have any topics you would like me to talk about send me an email too kenn.gerber@gmail.com and I will address them in future podcasts.
So there are three things that will make you happier and healthier. They are big and yet many people miss them. These three things will make a huge difference in your life. These are Ideas shared by Lewis Howes on the”School of Greatness”
The first one is to take care of your body. Nothing takes us away from happiness faster than pain. Taking care of the...
2020-09-2212 minYour Amazing Life!Little-Known Secrets to Become Lovable!When we are feeling unlovable it is a 2 sided blade. The fact is unlovable is the feeling not the thought a lot of the time. The thoughts range from mostly two sets of thought processes. Most times we have been telling ourselves we are either “not enough” or we are “too much.”
These stories that we tell ourselves get us to feel unlovable, inadequate, flawed, guilty or ashamed. Those feelings are based on the thought that precedes them. So this story that we tell ourselves actually creates our emotions. In the interview with Halle Berry.she talked a...
2020-09-1811 minYour Amazing Life!Overcoming Depression and Increasing Your Esteem With Halle BerryIn an interview with [Parade Magazine] and [Ebony magazine interview by Laura B. Randolph, March, 1997] she talked about battling low self worth and depressive feeling and thought about committing suicide after her divorce. But from the outside looking in you might ask what someone with an amazing lifestyle like that could have those same problems that you have? She talked about being devastated by the ending of her marriage to David Justice, a baseball star. She stated “I took my dogs, and I went in the garage and sat in the car. For two or three hours, I ju...
2020-09-1710 minYour Amazing Life!Have you Ever Looked at a $20.00 Bill and Said "That's Not Worth Anything"?We don’t do it with bills but we do often look at ourselves and see the crumbled wrinkled life and say “I'm not worth anything.” Why do you and I “decrease our value.” As an Example, I found it happening when others mistreated or bullied me in the past. There are others that think about people that they have lost and put those that died on a pedestal. They think that their friend or loved one had more reason to live than they do. But when we look at our life that way we reduce the price that they paid...
2020-09-1608 minYour Amazing Life!What or Who Are You Waiting For?In a rural area a farmer was tending to his horse named Buddy and along came a stranger who desperately needed the farmers help. The stranger had lost control of his vehicle and ran it off into a ditch. The Stranger asked if the farmer could use his horse to somehow pull the vehicle out of the ditch for him, explaining that his vehicle was small enough and the horse could probably do it. The Farmer said that he would come and bring his horse and take a look, but could not promise that he could help. If his...
2020-09-1506 minYour Amazing Life!Is Forgiveness Possible?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 69.
It can feel impossible. I mean so many of us have been abused or assaulted, mistreated, or misused. It is easy to say “Ken I can’t let that go, I have to hold them responsible! Or maybe even I have to hold myself responsible.” I mean many of us have gone through truly horrific and traumatic things. How can I forgive those? I get that those things do happ...
2020-09-1108 minYour Amazing Life!How Much Risk You Take Equals How Much Rewards You Receive?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 68. Shout out to my listeners in Ghana, Ireland, Ohio, Texas, Washington, California, and Oregon.
Farrell Mason stated “The pendulum is the equalizer of humanity. It is the one thing that rich and poor, black and white, Muslim, Jew, Christian, and Hindu all have in common. We must each cope with the tension of living on the cable of life between sickness and health, hope and despair, life and death....
2020-09-1008 minYour Amazing Life!I Had a Tough Day Last Thursday!Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 67.
I’m betting you have had a similar experience once or twice in the past. You are cruising down the road of life and you have a good clip going. You are moving along quickly and smoothly. Then without seeing it coming, you hit this big pothole and it almost rips the steering wheel from your hand. You hear this loud thump as the force compresses the spring all the wa...
2020-09-0909 minYour Amazing Life!This is the Sign You’ve Been Looking for!Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 66.
Most people talk about peak performance when talking about sports or athletics. But what about being in peak performance for your LIFE? Are you your best self most of the time or only occasionally? How do you become your best self? Many people feel frustration and are distracted a lot of the time. Few feel good all of the time. Many people lack a sense of deep purpose and joy...
2020-09-0306 minYour Amazing Life!Personal Evolution is a Choice.Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 65.
It’s not genetic, It is an approach to life.
It is through a mindful process that we gain understanding of the internal and external influences that shape us.
Next, don’t mix up cause with effects.
Most people believe, for example, that confidence is a cause of success. But it is actually the opposite that has been proven to be true. The studies...
2020-09-0206 minYour Amazing Life!What Huge Deal Might You Have Lost Today?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 64.
“Many years ago, an elderly lady was strolling through a Pittsburgh Department Store, obviously killing time. She passed counter after counter without anyone paying any attention to her. All the clerks had spotted her as an idle “looker” who had no intention of buying. They made it a point of looking in another direction when she stopped at their counters.
Finally the lady came to a counter that...
2020-09-0105 minYour Amazing Life!Have you Ever Been Absent at the Place your Body is at?I luckily am not so addicted that I know how many likes I got for that. But each one of those likes seems like it is a connection between me and the other person. Many people feel accomplished or fulfilled by the number of “likes” they got. But the truth is those are counterfeit connections. They do not build a relationship or help us to feel connected. Online games are a little different; they do bring some interaction and can bring a degree of relationship building. Every Sunday night me and my brothers get on and play “Rocket League.” We are a...
2020-08-2806 minYour Amazing Life!Is Not Having Enough Money an Issue for You?I asked a friend that was down what was troubling him. The answer was money money money. Now that is true for wall street, the housing market, political campaigns, small business, start-ups, and nonprofits. It is also the major strife between husband and wife. It is always money, money, money. Whether you love it or hate it you need money and it is best you get buddy-buddy with it. If you want to know how somebody feels about himself or herself look at their bank account. Money is one of the greatest measurements of one's mind set. Jim rone...
2020-08-2708 minYour Amazing Life!Is There Anyone in This World Richer Than You?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 61.
A student in a lecture with Bill Gates asked him, Is there anybody richer than you? Bill Gates thought about it and replied yes there is. He told a story about a newspaper vendor in a New York airport. He told this story. I saw a newspaper vendor and I wanted to buy a newspaper but as soon as I went to the counter I found that I didn't h...
2020-08-2606 minYour Amazing Life!A Lion, King of the Jungle, is Nature's Most Ferocious Killing Machine.Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 60.
A lion is fully capable of killing and eating a field mouse but it doesn't. The mouse can actually walk nonchalantly in front of a resting lion in The Lion will not disturb himself at all. The why is in the energy exchange it turns out that the energy required to do so exceeds the caloric content of a mouse. If a lion spent all it’s time hunting an...
2020-08-2506 minYour Amazing Life!Stop Asking 'What if' and Start ACTING!Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 59.
A young man who was a poor student promised his mom that he would take the SAT. He had poor grades and didn’t expect to go to college. He took the SAT and got his score back. The letter said 1480 out of 1600. His mom asked did you cheat? The boy said no mom I guess that is just what I am. The following year as school approaches he decides...
2020-08-2107 minYour Amazing Life!Sometimes I Want to Just Not Want so Much!Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 58.
Have you ever been there? Been on an amazing beach during a well deserved vacation, and the sun setting on the water and you are thinking about work, the house or car you want to buy. Lots of things except about where you are and what you're experiencing. Everywhere you go you are thinking of the next deal, the next big thing. Maybe you are at home, watching...
2020-08-2007 minYour Amazing Life!Would it be okay if you were never famous?You'll never be famous and that's okay by Emily Estefani Smith
“Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company or ending a humanitarian crisis.
Having idealistic aspirations is, of course, part of being young. But thanks to social media, purpose and meaning have become conflated with glamour: Extraordinary lives look like the norm on the internet. Yet the idea that a meaningful life must be or appear remarkable is n...
2020-08-1909 minYour Amazing Life!You Only Need One Person Believing in You to Make Your Life Amazing.Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 56.
“Sometimes it only takes one person to believe in you to change your life forever. Sometimes it only takes one person not believing in you to destroy it.”― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
So why is this? Well The only person that can affect your life with their belief is You! What I believe about myself makes or breaks my life. There are times when I will ac...
2020-08-1815 minYour Amazing Life!Is There Anything Better than Making Money?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life and Times”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 55.
Let's start with what is money and what does it do. Money is a tool for trading goods and services. Does money have intrinsic value? No, its value is based on faith and what it can be traded for, as a tool it is easy to use and provides for a better experience. Is money bad or evil? No, in fact the opposite is true. Money is a mea...
2020-08-1408 minYour Amazing Life!Does Ambition Bring You Freedom or Make you a Slave?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 54.
Ambition is a double edge sword. It can create Freedom and give you choice. It can also make you a slave to the albatross of obligation. The question you are probably grappling with is where is that line, where does your ambition go from your ally to your enemy? How do you know when to pull back on the reins to keep it from running your Stagecoach off a cliff...
2020-08-1308 minYour Amazing Life!Are You a Fan of Failure or Do You Fight Failure?Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 53.
If you want to Invent, If you want to do any innovation or anything new, you’re going to have failures because you need to experiment…” Jeff Bezos It takes failures to get to success. One or two successes can pay for many losses. You might have been like me. My thought has been Failure means time to move on. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up and move o...
2020-08-1209 minYour Amazing Life!“Stop Trying to be Clever About Your Productivity.”Thank you for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life”. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 52.
So one of the things that I have had trouble with is I have tried to be clever about my productivity. I move from one thing to the other too quickly and too often and that has created a life that is scattered and non productive. When you look at pruning a tree or a bush, pruning keeps the tree or a bush from growing unruly. When we prune...
2020-08-1111 minYour Amazing Life!Do You Ever Announce Your Shortcoming?Thank you for joining me today for creating your amazing life. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 51.
So last night after my podcast I went to the gym and played basketball with my day. Actually we shot the basketball. Neither one of us is ready to run up and down the court yet but we are improving. As I was shooting the ball a good deal of the time I know as soon as it leaves my fingers whether or not the shot will go in...
2020-08-0707 minYour Amazing Life!So Which of These 5 Enemies Give You the Most Trouble; Fear, Failure, Belief, Comfort or Boredom?Thank you for joining me today for creating your amazing life. Please reach down and hit the “Subscribe” button. I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 49.
So as a kid were you ever told by a parent, teacher, coaches or whatever that what you're aiming for is not possible for them or that it's impossible to reach? Sometimes the dream dies later as you get older and you get tired and instead of trying to pivot once more you decided just kind of throwing the towel this time for good. It's sad when a dr...
2020-08-0510 minYour Amazing Life!I’m sure you’ve been in bad places but last night was one of those.Thank you for joining me today for creating your amazing life please reach down hit the “Subscribe” button I'm glad that you are joining me for episode number 48.
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2020-07-3008 minYour Amazing Life!Are You a Victim of the “News” drug?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 47.
News Agencies are drug pushers and the negative news is their drug and the goal is to get you addicted. Those behind big media companies know you and how your brain is wired better than you do, they know that to survive your brain is constantly on the lookout to protect you from the threat of disaster. Are these people in the news media just awful, corrupt, and terrible...
2020-07-2911 minYour Amazing Life!How do Micro Environments Affect Us, Our Neighborhoods, and Our Liberty?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the subscribe button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 38.
So today I went on a hike near “Mirror Lake” As I am hiking down the trail and thinking I notice how the trees that are right next to the trail are different. All of them have no branches on the trail side for the first six or so feet. But on the other side the branches go all the way down the tree. I looked more closely...
2020-07-2806 minYour Amazing Life!Are You as Selfish as I am?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 46.
Alright so today I want to to talk about or to introduce this subject with this poem. It is called “The Bridge Builder” by Will Allen Dromgoole.
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray
To a Chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed...
2020-07-2406 minYour Amazing Life!So What was Today Like For You?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 45.
So today is an amazing day I got to learn about my brain and I got to overcome some of the monkey brain and I got to move forward. That makes it amazing. I mean so many times people want their amazing days to be without issues to be without trouble to be without problems, but you know what, life is not rigged that way. Life has problems, in life...
2020-07-2308 minYour Amazing Life!My Monkey Brain in High GearThanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 44.
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2020-07-2210 minYour Amazing Life!Oh Man How Fast my Mind Can Turn Around?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 43.
Has one statement ever just turned you off and sent your head spinning, or is it just me? It can happen to me fairly regularly. I mean today was going really well. I was staying focused and feeling good and then I wasn’t. I was so distracted I made mistakes at work. Since it was late in the day I finally just gave up working. This isn’t one...
2020-07-1607 minYour Amazing Life!What Pyrrhic Victories Have you Had Today?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 42.
So a Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat or negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress. . What are the things that you think you have won but have actually cost you more than the victory paid? I mean this happens in my life right. I only make as much money or have as...
2020-07-1608 minYour Amazing Life!What do You Want to Suffer?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 41.
What pain, what work, what sacrifice will you choose so that you can have the results you desire? Emotional pain and suffering is all self chosen. Things that happen to us are just things there is no good or bad to it.. Shakespeare said “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” in Hamlet. This is as true today as when he said it. So we get to...
2020-07-1606 minYour Amazing Life!My Monkey Brain Was Running the Show Today.Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 40.
So today my monkey brain was pushing back. I had lots of emotions, lots of thoughts about moving on from what I am doing. Man it was in full spring. I had to use my tools just to move and do the things that I told myself that I would do. Man I wanted to quit. But I did not. I picked myself up and d...
2020-07-1608 minYour Amazing Life!Does The Robot, Monkey or Sage Brain Run Your Life?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and Hit the “subscribe” button. I am glad you are joining me for episode 39.
There are three brain processes that go on in our brain. The first one is the robot brain. This part covers all the subconscious actions. This is an important part; it keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing, and many other things. The robot part of the brain job is to keep us alive and breathing. It is also the part that takes care of flight, fight or freeze...
2020-07-0911 minYour Amazing Life!We Are Only as Good as Our Worst Habits.Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and subscribe to my podcast. Thanks for joining me for episode 37.
So what does this mean? Why are we only as good as our worst habits? “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Warren Buffet. Many people like to say concentrate on your strengths. But if a chain is only as strong as its weakest link “playing to our strength” will not move the needle in a positive or big way. It will not...
2020-07-0706 minYour Amazing Life!Do You Suffer From Intention Deficit Disorder?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and subscribe to my podcast. Thanks for joining me for episode 36.
You probably heard of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) but what is Intention Deficit Disorder? Right now with all the things going on we need people with Intention. People who intend to share love with others, or intend on playing their part in overcoming the racism that is rampant in our world today. We need to have people that will treat everyone with value and respect! We need people that will stand up t...
2020-07-0310 minYour Amazing Life!How Can Stress Ruin Your Health?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and subscribe to my podcast. Thanks for joining me for episode 35.
So stress can affect us in so many ways. It can affect our sleep, our digestion, the way our heart beats, or cause seizures. Our body is meant to deal with stress in small time periods 5 mins here 15 mins there. Stress's job is to protect us, it is to get us to move. We like to call it stress because we don’t want to refer to admit what it really is. St...
2020-07-0211 minYour Amazing Life!What is More Important, The Right Question or The Right Answer?Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and subscribe to my podcast. Thanks for joining me for episode 34.
So Albert Einstein said “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask… for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” In the novel ”The Left Hand of Darkness” They had a religion that was based around asking the proper question they talked about t...
2020-07-0106 minYour Amazing Life!Our Society is in Crisis Today are You?Our society is in crisis today if we look at some of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and subscribe to my podcast. Thanks for joining me for episode 33.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs and motivation, it is often depicted as a pyramid. One of the higher needs that Maslow found is Love and belonging. This is a need. As a need we will find a way to have it met or we...
2020-06-3011 minYour Amazing Life!Have You Ever Blown Up Or Bulldozed a Person Or Situation?Have you ever walked into your house or a room and felt your body talk over and you blow up and yell and scream? Ever had the experience that not even the dog was glad to see you come home? I used to walk in the house, the door I used led right into the kitchen. If the sinks had food and dirty dishes all over I would feel a emotion rise up through my body and I would bulldoze right over my children. I would take no prisoners. It took me so long to move past those reactions...
2020-06-2612 minYour Amazing Life!Have you Gotten Past your Childhood or are you Still Reliving it?Welcome to creating Your amazing Life with Ken Gerber. This is Episode 32. Thanks to all those who listen to my podcast I appreciate each of you. Please reach down and subscribe to my channel. One of the people that I’m working with has been through a great deal of abuse over their life. They have struggled to become an effective person because of it. Each day they have been required to step into their fears. Because of their past they have fears around many things. It is not easy for people that have experienced great amounts of mistreatment in...
2020-06-2506 minYour Amazing Life!90/10 Rule for Living LifeDo you spend 90 percent off your time with the people most important to you or least. So many of us go to work each day and spend our time with coworkers. Spending 10% with spouses and children and we consider that normal behavior in our society. Is that your normal? Right now with covid 19 many of us have had a new experience some have found they prefer the new norm spending more time at home. What have you found that completes you and gives you a feeling of success. Are you creating what you want out of life or do...
2020-06-2413 minYour Amazing Life!How does Stress and Pain Serve You?You know In my 30’s I was very stressed out all the time. I had thoughts of what might happen, what I expected to happen, and the gap between the two seemed to be great. Those differences between what I worried about and expected to happen and what was really going on created a big divide. That seemed like a chasm and caused a great deal of stress in my life. The things that I found that worked for me are:
Do what needs to be done without whining. Action reduces stress.
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2020-06-1913 minYour Amazing Life!Your Stress Breaking Point is in Proportion to the Size of your LifeWe are all way more capable than we allow ourselves to be. The ceiling we create is our stress point not our point of failure. Your stress point can be traffic, unfavorable gossip, your favorite sports team lost or making sales calls. You know when I first started thinking about this I was “like what stress I don’t stress.” “It’s like don’t stress the small stuff and there is no big stuff.” But the more I thought about it those are lies that I tell myself so that I don’t have to work or improve or push the ceil...
2020-06-1811 minYour Amazing Life!How to Create Confidence in Yourself.Confidence is a result, an outcome of your actions, not a cause. Confidence is earned, developed, and grown. You don’t start with confidence, you end up with it. We are born naked, scared, and ignorant. We gain confidence through action, day by day. By telling a better story. Prayer, hope visualize, chanting, subliminal program their way to confidence. Those tools can help you change your story, create love and acceptance for yourself. But they are not what creates confidence. Confidence comes from actions you take on a regular basis. A definition of confidence is a feeling of tr...
2020-06-1713 minYour Amazing Life!Give Your Future Self a GiftDo what needs to be done as a gift to your future self. This will reduce your workload and stress in the future. Call and let's talk about what gift you want to give yourself.
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2020-06-1609 minYour Amazing Life!Let us all Share in Responsibility for this World and for each other.“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It is easy to say, its not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider these people my heroes.” Mr Rogers. Give me a call and let me know how things are going for you with the things going on.
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2020-06-1212 minYour Amazing Life!Iron Man quote "Don't waste it, Don't waste your life"Those who we have lost those that have gone on before us, would want us to live life and be happy. There are tools you can use that will help you to overcome anxiety and depression so that you can be happy. Reach out let's talk about what you want to do so your life is not a waste.
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2020-06-1112 minYour Amazing Life!Overcoming the loneliness that goes along with Covid.We will find a way to feel a part of a larger group, to be happy we need to feel that we are valued and important to others there are multiple ways to get it. Some are negative others are positive. They can get us the emotion we need but cost us in the long run. Let's talk about how you get a feeling of value.
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2020-06-1015 minYour Amazing Life!Why do we stay were we are not valued? Why do corporations think they own their workers?When I don't feel valued I do not stay but many people do. Why is it that we allow people to treat us like we have no value or like they own us. If you want to talk about this please click here.
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2020-06-0519 minYour Amazing Life!Anyone Feeling Compassion FatigueIts hard right now and compassion fatigue is a real thing. Setup a time and let's talk about what you are thinking and feeling.
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2020-06-0415 minYour Amazing Life!Man I'm TiredSo the things that are going on, with the building my business, Covid 19 and the racial inequality have been emotionally draining. So how do we get energy. One way is to build loving relationships within our communities. We develop love for those that we serve. If you would like to talk about what is going on in your life setup an time and let's talk.
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2020-06-0312 minYour Amazing Life!Creating Love and Healing During this Time of TroubleI want to acknowledge those that feel oppressed, or victimized. I know that there are some social issues that need addressing. I feel empathy for you and the situation. I'm grateful for the many good cops out there and our national guard. Our country needs healing and that healing will come from each of us reaching out to people in our communities and helping them feel loved and heard. If you want to talk about more tools to feel loved reach out and let's talk.
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2020-06-0214 minYour Amazing Life!Does one particular race have a corner on the market for suffering?Can I as a white make know what suffering is? According to a friend I grew up and a family member I cannot. Why are there people who believe we can fight hate with anger? If you want to discuss what I don't know and have a bunch of time on your hands reach out setup a time and let's talk about it. Click here to set up a time.
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2020-05-2921 minYour Amazing Life!Sour CherriesLet's talk share your dreams with me tell me about the ones you let go of. Click here to set up a time.
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2020-05-2810 minYour Amazing Life!Doing/ Being Kevin Hart Interview on school of greatnessAre you busy moving without direction Or Do you know the end of the story and you are moving in that direction. Feel free to setup a time to tell me about your story and the bumps that derail you. Click here to setup a time
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2020-05-2709 minYour Amazing Life!Memorial Day TributeThis is a day to Honor our Military members who have died preserving our Freedom. I have the utmost honor and love for our fallen heroes. I know that sometimes our Vets have trouble being the ones that live but those who died for us would want us to live fully and happily. We can best remember them by living fully. Happy Memorial day. Let's chat
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2020-05-2615 minYour Amazing Life!So today I was triggered by something a buddy saidSo lets walk through what causes a trigger and how do I protect from being triggered. As always love to have a discussion on how this affects you.
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2020-05-2211 minYour Amazing Life!Becoming and taking control of my life.How to find your passion and become!
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2020-05-2110 minYour Amazing Life!The overactive fear response many of us struggle with.There is a time and a place for fear many of us feel fear when it is unhelpful and unhealthy. Let's talk about when and where you feel the fear response and how you deal with it. Set up a time for us to go over it.
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2020-05-2011 minYour Amazing Life!Doing / Becoming What is the Difference?Doing is things that we do that get things done that accomplish things. Being or becoming is who we are. Doing is the easier thing to concentrate on. Being takes more work. For tools and tricks setup a time to speak with me.
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2020-05-1910 minYour Amazing Life!Burn the Boats, There is no going back!My story continues and I keep wondering when do I give up? When do I take a job? Giving up is a habit a bad one and I have gotten to used to it! If you would like to share your story and how it affects you please set up a time.
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2020-05-1510 minYour Amazing Life!Moving Dad in with usSo yesterday because of some issues we moved my dad in with us. and it was hard and took a bunch of hours. I glad he's here. But it affected my story and during the move I got triggered and went off. I was able to reign it in within about a minute. But there are times when it is difficult and we get angry. We just need to get to the story happening at the moment we are triggered and change that story so we are no longer triggered by the event. I was able to move...
2020-05-1309 minYour Amazing Life!Getting Past your Story and Moving AheadThis podcast is about the time that you have in which to change your thoughts before they move to feeling and then affect your behavior.
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2020-05-0812 minYour Amazing Life!Man did I have a Day YesterdayI felt like I got hit from all sides. I was up till 2 AM cause my brain would not quit playing over the garbage over and over. Have you ever been there? It was hard and I don't want to go back there. But I was able to overcome and you can too. I work with people all the time that are able to overcome depression and anxiety and get so they are not triggered all the time. There are tools that can create that. I can help you with those tools. Please subscribe to my podcast. and...
2020-05-0613 minYour Amazing Life!Why the words we Speak Matter!What we say does affect our outcomes. There are studies and proof out there. Even though many people like to believe that they have no responsibility for what they speak. Yet things always happen to them. Things often happen to me But when I'm in a good place, I happen to things and I control what happens.
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2020-05-0610 minYour Amazing Life!Feeling miserable because your work doesn't create the outcome you wanted?We often expect that what we put in should create our outcome. Our actions affect the outcome but not always create it. Cause life can sometimes get in the way. But you have to continue to put in the work for the outcome to be realized.
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2020-05-0413 minYour Amazing Life!Does Adversity invigorate you? If not Listen to this!!As we deal with adversity at different time and with different adversity we handle them differently. There are time we become soft, other times we probably become hard. Once in a while we use the adversity to create and become more. During this time of unprecedented adversity the world over there is in-creditable opportunity! What will you do how will you handle this adversity? You can Become something new during this time of adversity and that can lead to your happiness. I have tips and tricks to get you there. Here is a link to setup a call
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2020-05-0116 minYour Amazing Life!More On the Stories I tell myself during Covid 19Some things happened yesterday. I had to watch the stories that I told myself about the things that happen. In the Past I would have said Oh this is a bad thing and it happened to me because I'm unworthy or a bad person. When I told those kind of stories to myself I was miserable. Now I tell myself a different story. The new story leads to happiness for me. Changing your story can lead to happiness for you. I have tips and tricks to change your story. Here is a link to setup a call
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2020-04-3013 minYour Amazing Life!What are the Stories we Tell OurselvesHow do they affect us? What is the outcome of the story? Stories have been told since the beginning of time even before humans learned to read and write. Stories transcend generations. They create connections with others. It is through stories that we experience rich emotions and feelings of joy, sorrow, hardships, and failures. It is your perspective that shapes the meaning of your stories.
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2020-04-2913 minYour Amazing Life!The Importance of Dream BuildingHow much money you get is equal to how much value you bring to the greatest number of people. Increase the value you bring and the number of people you bring value to and you income will increase.
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2020-04-2807 minYour Amazing Life!Hope in Seasons of DarknessThe covid 19 has brought a season that has slowed growth and seems cold and distant. It is a winter season in the lives of many. But after winter comes spring. Spring brings new life and renewal. This is a natural progression and we do not have to feel bad or unhappy just because of the season. We can feel hopeful and happy that spring will come this time will pass. Thanks for joining me in This Amazing Life!
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2020-04-2708 minYour Amazing Life!Why I here and where I have come fromThis is about me and the things I have over come. How I have moved past years and years of suicidal idealization and depression. It started as a teen and continued for over 25 years. But through this time I have been able to serve others and change their lives for the better and that is what I want to continue.
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