As you can guess, being in the martial arts for thirty years I have experienced all types of anger. I have seen it in all its many ugly forms.

Anger is never a pretty thing when you witness it, and most of the time anger does more harm than good. In fact, I have never seen a time that anger made situations better—except under certain conditions that I will speak about later in this article.

My thirty years of personal development and martial arts training has taught me that whoever best controls their temper wins the match—or the situation in which they’re involved. Anger will blind you of what you need to see and numb you to what you need to feel. This makes anger a bad companion to success in any area of your life.

Think about times when you were so mad you did not listen to reason. What was the outcome to those times? I’m sure you will recall…most likely, not so very good! Believe me I have a plethora of them myself!

In any environment you will find that anger makes situations and conditions worse, rather it be in your personal/professional relationships or in simply your personal goals that you set for yourself.  The bottom line: anger clouds your judgments and makes you use your emotions incorrectly.

Personal development will give you the training that you need to control your anger and teach you how to use the saved energy to create something greater in your life.

Something else…through my own martial arts and personal development training, I myself have felt the effects of using the energy it takes to be angry and I used it for something greater in my professional and my personal life. In fact, I have lost out on many great personal relationships and many business relations because of anger issues I had early on in my life.

Anger can also be a warning signal that something is not right and needs to be addressed by you, yourself. Furthermore, you may feel angry because someone continues to abuse you physically or emotionally and that you are not going to take it anymore.

I have seen people make the decision—in a moment of anger—to redirect the energy of their anger into a believable action and change their situation completely.

However, personal development training will teach you to accept this anger and dissolve the anger energy and move on with the creation of your life. This is absolutely the best way to use anger. In fact, in the Martial Art form Aikido they use anger and aggression against you. The energy of anger from the attacker is always redirected—usually back at the attacker because they allowed it to happen. That is why it is also important to master your anger so that people can’t use your anger against you.

So get yourself into a good personal development course and take the training as seriously as you would take anything else of great value, and your anger issues will change and your life will turn for the better because you will have a lot more energy to benefit from.

It is your choice, so make the right decision for you and the loved ones in your life.

Life can be very confusing and it can get us to the point that we feel separated and dazed. It is no wonder that we feel so disconnected from our life that we want to live and settle for the existence we inch out every day. I too lived like that in my early life—until I found the secrets to living…and not just existing.

Personal fears will rob you of life and replace it with a battle for existence. We run around looking over our shoulders while making little steps in life in order to avoid making any real noise for fear that we might be noticed and put down for trying to be different and blazing our own path. We have plenty of evidence of this: most great people have had great opposition from all those around them. Some of the greats were lucky enough to have maybe a few people support them, however.

It is a mistake to think that others can give you flow and happiness. However, here is what I learned from empirical evidence. (Yes, from my own real life trials and errors.)

• Life will get better to the degree that you do.




• Whatever you want to improve in your life, it will do so when you improve at being that person.




• Integrity is the key to success and happiness.




• When you feel in control of your actions (and why you do them), you will feel happiness about yourself because you are leading yourself properly and have control of your life.




• The more you subtract from your life, the more consciously you will live.




• Too many things will make you feel out of control and not focused on the important things in your life.




• When you have a system that works, life can become automatic in happiness and success.




• You want to automate all that you can so that life is set up on a process and keeps flowing—just like an automatic draft or direct deposit on your bank account.




• When you learn to allow your energy to flow in the direction you want it to flow, life will cease to be a struggle.




• Goals will manifest where you place the conscious and sub-conscious desire for them to do so.

We do not get what we want from life by wishing and hoping. We get from life what we take the time and effort to become. We attract that which we are. Everything in our life is great to the degree that we make the conscious effort to become great ourselves.

It is very reasonable for us to expect back out from life what we place into it. So give yourself the opportunity to grow and you will find happiness and success—and…you will have flow.

Energy is the ability to go forth and do work. Well, I believe that says it all in a nutshell.

The people that are the happiest and most successful know one fact of life: energy creates the abundance of action!  Nothing else can empower you like a well-rested mind and body.

However, we have been conditioned by family, friends, and all social outlets to cherish and worship the all mighty stimulant. However, stimulants are merely band-aids for the real problem—and that is a lifestyle driven by stress and lack of clarity.

For far too long we have been told that we need coffee to wake-up in the morning—and, of course, maybe a morning cigarette. We have been conditioned through promotions and advertisements that stimulants are the way of life. And, of course, that leads to bigger and better drugs (more stimulants) for us. Why stop if you are a major pharmaceutical company raking in the cash on our need for band-aids.

But this is not another “bash the big corporation article.” Nope…in some ways the big pharmaceutical companies save many life’s every year. (Let me look and make sure there’s not an “Occupy Group” outside my window for making that last comment. Okay, everything looks good. )

The truth is that we need to understand that band-aids are only a short-term patch and that they do not promote the actual healing of the wound—the body does that. So, it makes sense that we need to give the body what it needs to do its job—and then allow it to do so.

The body needs rest and proper nutrition in order to work properly.  However, I do realize that it’s easier to pop a pill or drink something for that quick “pick me up.” But it’s also crucial to recognize that our bodies are capable of providing all the energy we need—as long as we give our own body what it needs.

Clearly, the body needs proper rest and nutrition. But these are foreign words to most Americans. So, if we are to regain our health and regain control of our time and productivity, we must take the time to correct our sleep problems and nutritional needs.

Start with 6 to 8 hours of quality sleep at night. Most of us run on 6 to 8 hours of quality sleep. However, to get that kind of rest, we need to quit the over stimulation of our minds and body about three hours before bed time. Here are some suggestions for better sleep:

1. Write down all pressing matters on a to-do-list for the next day. If needed, write down how you will take care of these issues so that the brain feels organized and can release the issue rather than making you toss and turn thinking about it while trying to get some sleep.

2. No television before going to bed. It’s a distraction and stimulant at the same time. If you really feel calmer by watching television then okay…maybe you’re the exception. After all, there’s bound to be a small segment of the population that truly does relax by watching a little television before bedtime. The key here is: “a little” television.

3. Make sure your room is at the ideal temperature for you to sleep comfortably and undisturbed. Also, make sure that the room is dark and that the house is secured, which is more about “peace of mind” subconsciously.

4. Allow yourself to pre-dream (as I like to call it). This is where you allow yourself to simply drift while controlling what you’re thinking to some degree. It’s like a dream, but you chose and control your thoughts until you fall asleep.

5. Take a warm shower before bedtime in order to help you relax. This technique can put you to sleep by up to 50% faster because of the relaxed state you’re in.

6. Limit your sleeping aids (i.e., sleeping pills, and whatnot) so that your body can start doing its job for you. Soon, you will find yourself sleeping on schedule, and your life will have a lot more energy and action as life becomes far more productive for you.

So, let’s count it out: 24 hours in a day, right? Well, when you think about it…successful people have the same number of hours in their day as unsuccessful people. So what’s the real difference? For starters, successful people have a mentality that defies excuses while unsuccessful people tend to embrace excuses.

Also, successful people strategically plan for their goals, allowing them the affordability of picking their own battles. Ultimately, successful people know how to tremendously advance their goals by executing vital action steps rather than focusing on smaller insignificant actions that don’t really have anything to do with the big picture.

Brian Tracy, in his program The Miracle of Self-Discipline, explains and summarizes two principles that lie at the heart of success, happiness, and self-discipline—or lack, thereof: (1) the path of least resistance, and (2) the expediency factor, which is an extension of the first.

The path of least of resistance, while sounds harmless and inviting, is actually detrimental to personal success and self-discipline because it promotes the fast and easy way of doing things. Rather than doing the tough—and often necessary—steps for achieving real success, many people opt for faster shortcuts, which thereby produces lesser results—and therefore lesser happiness.

The expediency factor (an extension of the path of least resistance) is detrimental to personal success and self-discipline because if promotes neglecting the long-term consequences of one’s behavior while seeking out the fastest, easiest way of getting things done. In other words, doing what’s fun and easy might feel good and expedite some results, but that won’t bring about the real results you need for true success and happiness.

Now, getting back to picking your battles. One of the first and most important elements in successfully achieving your goals is: believability. Whenever you set a goal, it’s important that your goal is believable. In other words, you must feel that you can achieve it—within reason, of course.

For example, if you’ve never made a million dollars once in your lifetime, it’s hard to say that you’re going to do so within the next six months—guaranteed!—just because that’s the goal you want. More than likely, you picking a battle that you’re going to lose!

Making a goal believable helps to get your mind around the action steps you’ll need to organize in order to achieve that success. Self-discipline is crucial at this phase, because more than likely, you’ll be tempted by the path of least resistance and the expediency factor without out it. This is where you have to not only believe that your goal is achievable, but know that you’re willing to do whatever it takes (even the hard stuff) to make it happen.

I—myself—am not an educated man from the ivory towers of what others feel an education should be. I did not graduate High School or College. (Personally, I have nothing against education, and I believe everyone should have an education and get a degree.)

In fact, I come from a broken home and from broken surroundings that were not conducive for proper education. I had no real role models to look at—at least in the light of positive role models. Everyone told me that I wouldn’t amount to anything and that I’d be broke and dumb my entire life. Of course, for a while, my life went in a different direction than receiving a formal education.

Now, I’m not saying that this is the best way for everyone. (When possible, get an education!) However, if for any reason you don’t graduate or receive a full education, all is not lost for you.

Fortunately, in my particular case, I have a high IQ and the ability to take action on what I want. Therefore, I always knew how to take massive action and figure things out. I always worked hard and I always taught myself what I didn’t know. And through the use of tutors, I learned many subjects, such as English, Math, Science, and so on.

Knowledge is a great thing to have! But when all you have is knowledge and no wisdom, in my point of view, you’re still ignorant.

Knowledge is converted into wisdom by action, because action brings about the experience of how things work in the real world. So, as an example, we maybe have professors that are teaching business in our colleges and universities who might not have ever run a real business from the ground up. So, their learning is all hypothesis and conjecture. This is not reality. They have great book knowledge and little to no real wisdom stemming from experience.

When I was first looking for work as a young adult, I essentially learned a special trade. Initially, I landed a job as a janitor for a health club. Eventually, I worked my way to sales while cleaning the club at night after work. I took care of their pools and other forms of light maintenance. Ultimately, I saw what the top salesmen were doing, and I decided that I could do what they did.

Naturally, sales work was much cleaner and fresher than my janitorial duties. I soon realized, however, that I had a flare for sales and marketing, and I was, therefore, promptly moved into Management. I was the top producer and ended up leading many sales teams to spectacular quotas. While I was still educating myself in school knowledge, I further realized that spelling and basic math skills were vitally important—so I hit those subjects the hardest.

Whenever I realized that I needed something in my life, I educated myself in those areas first and foremost. What was most interesting to me was as the years went by, none of the people I knew who had graduated High School and/or College were more successful or happier than I was. Maybe because the real world showed me what I really needed to know, and therefore, I did not waste time or money on things that I didn’t need right them—but I acquired later on in my life.

Today, I continue to educate myself through courses, CD’s, books, and by talking to more informed people in whatever arena I want to know about. In today’s world, there are tons of ways to educate yourself. You are no longer tied down to only one method of learning.

However, remember, no matter what you do, be sure that you’re educated and that you can apply whatever you’ve learned—and that you and your world are growing because of it. Do not become another educated derelict. We have too many of them today already.

We have all seen the situation played out a thousand times: people not happy with life and blaming others for their misfortunes. Sometimes you want to grab these energy-vampires and shake them in order to wake them up. It’s not life that is bad and dull but rather it’s how you apply yourself in life. You are the problem with your life, not life itself.

We all like to blame other people and situations for our greatest unhappiness, but the truth is you are to blame—and at the moment, you need not look any further. It is very hard to accept the blame for your own shortcomings. To a degree, it’s natural (well, more of a tendency) for people to “want to” shift the blame onto others. But when you do, you give up your own personal responsibility—and that may be too much to sacrifice. Once you give up self-responsibility, all other qualities go out the door, as well (like personal efficacy and self-esteem, for example).

Life reveals itself to you in a very funny form of action called: “How much are you willing to claim for your own sense of self-worth?”  You see, people who have little self-worth do not have value for what others do. No respect for yourself means no respect for others, as well. Also, it is worth mentioning that people who are happy and loving life do not sit around crying and pointing the blame at people who are doing and creating things in life.

Life requires that you get busy making things happen. People who believe that sitting around meditating and downsizing everything is supposed to make them more holy or spiritual—and more in tune with the rhythm of life—are missing out on true happiness. These people are high enough on the conscious scale to realize that material things will not make you happy. But guess what does make you happy? The expression of your creative ability!

The creative expression of building something good—and that shows your energy moving in an outwardly direction—demonstrates that you can direct your energy with a laser-like direction and that you can make things happen for yourself and others.

If you really want to get spiritual, learn to make things happen in your own life and learn how to direct that energy to others in order to help make their lives better, too. Now you’re helping people—and not just sitting around trying to get others to do through blame what you could be doing for others through your own creative expression.

Personal development is very important if you’re going to be happy with life and enjoy the life that you’re living. See, we’re only truly happy when we feel in control of our own lives. And while shrinking the life you have to manage might sound good to you in the short term, in the long run you, you will suffer more from the lack of creative expression—and that will be a game stopper for all involved.

Believe it or not, your energy and time are the most important assets you have for your health, wealth, and personal happiness. When you are in direct control of your energy and time, big things can and will happen for you.

Energy is an extremely important necessity to have if you’re looking to become healthy, wealthy and happy. I mean, think of it this way: How many people do you know who are truly happy, yet lack the energy to feel and to function at a high level of performance? The answer: “None!” That within itself shows just how vitally important energy levels are for health, wealth and happiness.

Working for others—for the most part—rips your energy apart and makes you feel as if you’re not in direct control of your life. When we feel that we’re in control of our own lives (and that we have a mission), we’re much happier and we function at a higher level of personal pride and self-esteem.

Energy, if managed properly, will be the primary tool for your personal and business success. When you can compete at a high level of energy, you then have the energy and brainpower to solve your personal and professional problems. In other words, you have the energy to find the solutions that you need without feeling exhausted.

The truth is…whatever problem you are facing in your personal and professional life, someone else has already managed it and came out on top, and is probably already sharing that information for you to use in your success. You just have to have the energy—and resolve—to go after the information, recruit and bring it back, and then apply it—and that takes energy, of course!

Time is a crucial element of success and you must have the energy to manage it properly in order for it to become a valuable asset in your life. When you work for yourself, not only do you pay yourself first (before the Government), but you also get to make the crucial life decision about your time—and how, where, and with whom you’ll spend it.

“Life is a collection of experiences.” —Brady Cameron

We all have the same amount of time in a day for making experiences, but how many of us get to choose the experiences that we want to have and the time to make them happen? Working for yourself provides the freedom of time so that you can be in control of your life experiences.

Control over your energy and time is the most important thing you can invest your brainpower into. Furthermore, working for yourself allows you the time to consider the most important component in your life’s equation: you.

Having the energy levels to deal with your time is decided by what you do with yourself and the amount of self-discipline that you have. For maximum energy, try this:

1. Regular sleep pattern. At the very least (and worst case scenario), wake up at the same time of day regardless of the time you go to bed. Sleep is crucial to feeling good and having high amounts of energy.
2. Eat nutritional foods. If necessary, take high quality vitamins. (I recommend Life Extension, myself.) If you can juice, do so. If not, take a green powder called Green Vibrance. (I take them myself and have energy for days. Of course, pick whichever brand you like. I’ve used these products for years, and the results have been wonderful!)
3. Exercise. Even if all you can do is walk, do it. Something is better than nothing. Exercise reduces stress factors, thus helping you relax as well as keep your weight correct by stoking your metabolism.
4. Balance “alone” time and “family/friend” time. After all, we are social beings and we need to spend quality time in the presence of people we enjoy. So, enjoy your personal time, but also learn how to enjoy the people you’ve chosen to surround yourself with.
5. Be organized in your life (both personal and business). Organizing your time and energy to move in a certain direction does wonders for your life. In addition, making sure that your energy and time are going where you want them to go is just as important. This means making sure others aren’t stealing your time and that you’re not dealing with silly non-essential matters.)

When you work for yourself, you decide where your time and energy goes. This means that you are working to build your own life with your own time and energy, not give away your time and energy for someone else to build their life with.

Pay yourself first and reward yourself first with your own energy and time. I guarantee that you will be glad that you did.

The real truth is that it takes time to change yourself and the belief system that holds your current reality in place. It takes some time to change your beliefs, thoughts, and action patterns in your life from limiting ones to empowering ones.

This is why Creotology Personal Development has designed its Initiates Course to be six months long and to meet once a week—and, have some light homework. The homework helps hugely with integration and assimilating the material into real-world working conditions for your life.

It takes courage and conviction to change your life as well as taking the time required to do the work that must be done so that you can gain the clarity of your life in both the short-term and long-term perspective. Clarity is the reason for the integration period, and it’s the reason why a Master Instructor helps guide you through the course material and techniques.

The Martial Arts teach you how to defend yourself physically, and Creotology Personal Development in Las Vegas teaches you how to defend yourself from within your mind perspective (mentally). The real fight in life is in the everyday living of life and trying to obtain your personal and professional skills while also being happy.

Becoming a Creotology Mental Black Belt will give you the mental tools for handling your fears and self-limiting beliefs that you have about yourself and your ability to achieve—and how you feel about achieving goals in life.

Achieving is not easy; there’s no doubt about that. In addition, it’s almost impossible to succeed in life without the proper training to succeed. However, now there’s a viable option for your success, and Creotology Personal Development is here and willing to help you make it to that desired level of happiness and success in your life.

Beliefs are the creators of your daily reality. In fact, beliefs are the DNA for the life that you experience. Since beliefs are subjective, they play the feedback that manages and provides the raw material for how you will perceive anything into your life. The key phrase is: “perceive into your life.” Reality is not this “thing” that happens to you as much as it is “what you perceive” that happens to you, daily.

Creotology Personal Development will help you gain this control by getting you clear on your beliefs and making sure that you have control of your “personal will” and “personal attention.”

If you want to gain control of your reality and start living the life you chose, go to the front “home” page (of Creotology.com) and download your free report on becoming a Mental Black Belt!

Yes, it’s that time of year again when we’re making our New Year’s resolutions. “Good intentions” are everywhere. If you have not made your New Year’s resolutions, this is your time to do so. The New Year is still very young.

However, make this year’s goals different than last year’s. Make the goals this year fit into your life dream—and your personal mission in life. If you don’t have either one of these made out already, I will post a blog later in the month to help you with this as well. J For now, with this blog, I’ll provide a small example to help get you started.

The word goal stands for “go on and live,” because without personal and professional goals you don’t have much of a conscious life. You are just a robot (so to speak) existing under pre-programmed conditions and behaviors.

When you have goals, you’re living consciously. When you don’t have any goals, you’re just existing (as “usual”) without any change in your cognitive ability or behavioral conditions.

“Living consciously is what life is all about.”

It has been estimated that only 3% of all people write down goals that are actually followed through with. And all the people who don’t write their goals down are working for the 3% who does. The simple truth of the matter is that goals are what make life worth living.

Also, if you decide to have goals—and work for yourself, you will gain control of your time and energy.

(I will write another blog about time and energy in the near future to help you with these two very important aspects of a happy life.)

So making sure your goals are correct for you is of the utmost, crucial importance if you want to succeed and be happy.

I constantly hear people tell me that goals “do not work for them” and that they are a waste of time. I couldn’t disagree more!! If you want to be happy and successful, life is about focusing your energy. You cannot hit a target with any degree of accuracy without seeing it and aiming for it. If you miss your goal, just keep going and making any adjustments needed until you hit the goal…don’t give up!

Here is a small formula to help you get started and moving forward in the New Year of 2012.

First, write out your life as if it was a play and you are the main actor—and everything is based around you. Write in your other characters, situations, and personal experiences that you want for your life. What will your life be filled with when you’re on stage, and when you say “I’m retiring and all done”?

Second, write your mission statement: this is what you’ll accomplish, how you’ll accomplish it, and the morals that you’ll adhere too in order to accomplish your goals.

Third, now write in your personal and professional goals that will fit into the picture that you wrote in the 1^st and 2^nd steps. Also when you complete your goals, write out how you will accomplish them. This means you must have a plan of attack that is both believable and doable by you.

If you have any questions, you can call the Creotology Personal Development radio show (Monday nights at 8pm pacific time on KLAV AM 1230), or go onto Creotology.com and send us an e-mail—and we will assist you by e-mail.

It has been said many times that it is lonely at the top. However, I’ve also always heard that the top is the best place to be for comfort because there are fewer people there. Whatever your personal take on success, there are a few realizations about success that needs to be acknowledged?

• It is not lonely at the top if you pick your friends correctly. When I changed my life and started living differently, it required me to change my belief system and the way in which I took action. When I moved to operating like a general in the Army—and taking action on my plans thusly, I became very productive. Instead of just thinking that I will “think something” and it will manifest, I aggressively pursued what I wanted.
• Successful people are not only willing to fail but don’t personalize it when it happens. It is very unrealistic to think that there will be success without failure. I believe most people think they can become successful without failure because they have never experienced great success in their life before. So they have no real sense of the struggle that is going to be involved.
• Most think that successful people are merely successful regardless of themselves and that they were just given their successes by life itself. They believe that maybe the universe likes these other people more than them.
• They think that successful people are just lucky and that luck does not happen to them like it does to these other successful people. The unsuccessful do not recognize all the work that goes into the preparation of becoming successful.
• Self-discipline is a huge and majorly critical ability to have. Most people don’t have that type of commitment to anything—except for how to do something easier, or get it for nothing.

There are many more reasons. Think up some of the excuses you have made or heard others say about success. You will find that the most successful people are those that practice self-discipline all the time. Successful people know that you must have self-discipline if you are to win at the game of life.

Trying to be at the top of your life is not only a great thing to accomplish, but in a way, you owe it to others, as well. When you are at the top of your game others can be inspired by you, helping to make real changes in other people’s lives—except that they learn how to do it for themselves.

Also, it’s nice when people make life transformations because they can remember the path to where they have been, and therefore they know how to get back whenever they chose.

If you ever think that you don’t make a difference, just think of all the people in your life and how some of them might need direction and a little—maybe even a lot—of inspiration. You might just see what “you being at the top” will do for yourself and the world that you inspire in others.