“Entrepreneurs are the mitochondria of our business world!” —Brady Cameron

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.

Las Vegas now has—what has been called by many—the most elite mental training available for anyone interested in personal development. The truth is that all personal development instructors like to feed you the carrot in the sky story. “Come to my weekend workshop and change your life!!” Well, the real deal is this simple fact of life: “Real life and real personal transformation, for the majority of us, does not work that way just after one weekend!”

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!

“Your goals must be right for you in order for them to have the energy to move them forward.” –Brady Cameron-

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 may be lonely at the top, but you sure can get the best view of life.” –Brady Cameron

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.

If you’ve ever had a negative experience that keeps you from going back and trying something again, you might be missing out on countless opportunities—and unknown fortunes.

I know, because recently I almost got in my own way by doing the very same thing. However, I remembered a personal development lesson I learned a long time ago in my early martial arts training: “Getting back up is a part of falling—even if it hurts.”

So, despite my previously negative experience, I decided to clear my mind and forge ahead in order to retry my efforts. In this instance, while working for Creotology Personal Development, I was approaching a known business location for a cross-promotional opportunity in which the owner had previously—and rather rudely—shot down what I had to offer.

Thinking to myself that enough time has lapsed and that bygones were bygones, I opted to give it another go around and re-pitch my idea.

After asking to speak with the owner, lo and behold, comes to find out, the business had been sold—and I had a new opportunity to present my offer once more.

As you might’ve guessed, I successfully established an agreement with the new owners who—by the way—held high enthusiasm for my offer.

Now, had I been fearful of the past and held on to the negative ideas that were in place from the previous experience, I never would’ve tried to go back and reestablish contact. Thankfully I did, because now I genuinely feel that it’s the beginning of a mutually beneficial relationship.

So, what fears or negative experiences are holding you back? What’s keeping you from coming back around and trying something again?

These questions aren’t intended to bring up bad feelings or make you feel bad. I only ask so that you can identify the object of your negative experiences in order to further identify the ideas you hold about those experiences.

With enough personal development training, you’ll realize that everything is essentially an idea—meaning the scope of your reality is being held in place by the ideas you choose to maintain.

As a quick side note: Attention not only serves to expand and shrink one’s reality, but it also serves to sustain it, as well.

Therefore, whenever you place and hold your attention on specific ideas about an experience, to you that experience feels real; it’s your reality. But as all things go regarding your attention, it’s simply a matter of moving your mind from one perspective to a different one.

Here’s a quick exercise to demonstrate this point: Sit in a chair on one side of the room. Now, get up and move to the other side of the room and side back down facing the opposite direction. Now, alternate sitting for standing as you go back and forth from one side of the room to the other.

What do you see differently? What do you experience and how does each experience differ from each new perspective?

The key to success is for you to move yourself into a new mindset—or perspective. But once you know how to shift yourself in and out of different viewpoints, you’ll be able to look at a negative experience in a whole new light.

Now it’s time to move into action and achieve success without your past experiences holding your back.

Steve Garcia

Creotology Personal Development Writer

Recently, I saw two different Facebook friends—within the same week—post the exact same comment (word for word): “Things aren’t always what they seem to be.”

This would appear to be a simple and justifiable observation, right? After all, many philosophers suggest that reality—the world in which we observe, touch, and experience—is just an illusion.

But can there be something else behind an event than what meets the eye (or the mind, rather)?

In fact, could it be simpler than complicating events with our own projections and expectations?

For example, maybe—more often than we realize—events are exactly as they appear, but we refuse to see them for how they are because we’re too busy creating and projecting our expectations and ideas about how things should be.

And how does this pertain to personal development?

Easy…it’s hard to advance in life and effectively deal with events when we’re approaching how to handle them from the wrong perspective. It’s like using the wrong tool for the wrong job. You wouldn’t use a hammer, for example, to cut a piece of wood in half, nor would you use a saw to hammer in a nail.

In order to get the most out of life and successfully create the results and achieve the goals you want, you have to approach events from the correct perspective. If not, you risk dismissing opportunities simply because they don’t conform to your ideas and expectations.

So what’s the real problem?

Whenever someone’s reality doesn’t align with their expectations, it’s been my experience that most people get very angry and upset—if not discouraged and heartbroken. And rather than look inwardly for the answers and solutions, it’s almost better (because it’s easier) to blame the situation for being an illusion all along.

In this mindset, this means that the event at hand couldn’t have been properly dealt with in the first place—because it was never real. Therefore, anyone who believes this might feel like it’s time to step away and move on to something else that’s easier.

Well, I see one immediate problem with this approach: If we deal with problems in our lives by constantly blaming external events, we’ll never be honest enough with ourselves to know how to see when we’re at fault for projecting the wrong expectations.

Personal development is about mental flexibility and the ability to change and adapt. But this doesn’t mean that you should automatically abandon your position for another one just because of a slight misalignment. After all, you wouldn’t throw away a perfectly good car just because it pulls a little to one side, would you? You’d realign your vehicle. Well, life is the same way.

Whenever you encounter an event that doesn’t match your expectation, it’s time to realign your ideas and expectations with the reality at hand. This means seeing things for what they are, but you have to be able to remove yourself (meaning your projections and expectations).

Doing this on your own might prove to be challenging, so consider getting involved with a personal development program that can show you how to detach your mind in order to approach your goals from a much clearer perspective. This means approaching solutions to your problems more effectively and making better informed decisions, which will save you from a lot of future headaches.