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Archetype Quiz – How to Know Your Archetypes

March 30, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

A few day ago I saw a post on Facebook by my sister-in-law Jodi talking about archetypes.

She linked to a couple of websites and clicking around on them I eventually made my way to a website which allows you to take an “Archetype Quiz” which identifies your 3 primary archetypes.

Here are the results of my quiz:

According to this quiz I am 50% Visionary, 29% Intellectual and 21% Spiritual.

Once I read through the descriptions of the 3 primary archetypes that it identified for me, I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised to see how accurate this is.

Once you take the quiz, they break things down into 12 Archetypes and they show you your 3 strongest ones.

The 12 Archetypes are:

Visionary
Intellectual
Spiritual
Creative
Athlete
Rebel
Caregiver
Royal
Performer
Tastemaker
Explorer
Advocate

If you’d like to take the quiz yourself to see what you are, you can do so by clicking here.

Benefits of Knowing Your Archetypes

So what are the benefits of knowing your Archetypes?

Well, one of the primary benefits of these types of systems is that they increase our understanding of ourselves.

Most of the people we have in our lives, at home, at work, in our businesses, etc. are all different personality types and different archetypes, and a lot of the conflict in our lives comes from not understand those differences.

For example, as a visionary one of my strengths is the ability to see solutions to challenges that other people haven’t even imagined yet.

I have the ability to study a large variety of different topics and to see patterns in all of these things and imagine ideas, systems and processes out of “thin air” and into existence.

When I worked in the corporate world, having that strength made it easier for me to do my job as the Chief Technology Office of a publicly traded company.

Today I use that same skill to make money from home running my businesses.

The thing is though, that not everyone has the same Archetype profile as me, so if I am not aware of this I can end up getting frustrated with people when they don’t see the same things as I do.

In fact when I look at my past and I see various different interpersonal conflicts I’ve had with different people, it becomes abundantly clear that they had very DIFFERENT archetype profiles from mine.

They couldn’t understand how I could possibly think the way I do, and I couldn’t understand how they could think the way they did.

By getting clear about YOUR archetype profile and the profiles of the people around you, you can get a better understanding of them and avoid unnecessary conflicts, and strengthen your relationships.

There is no right and wrong. No profile is better than another one. They’re just different.

The other benefit of knowing your profile is that you can get a better understanding of your strengths and your weaknesses.

By knowing what your strengths are, you can organize your life and your business life to be more centered around those strengths – and team up with someone or outsource those areas that you’re weak in.

I highly recommend taking this quiz and getting to know your Archetype profile.

Head on over to Archetypes.com now and take the free quiz.

Then leave a comment below and share what percentages you got for your 3 primary Archetypes.

The One Lie That Guarantees You’ll Never Enjoy Your Work

March 26, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

As a coach / mentor who people come to for advice on how to make money doing what they love, there is one lie / limiting belief / program that I come across more often than any other with people who are trying to figure out how to make money doing what they love.

Before I reveal what this lie ( limiting belief / program ) is, I want to first explain where this lie originates from.

See, for thousands of years the human race has had a division of classes on this planet…

… the first class of people were the wealthy / royalty class, and the second class were the poor / worker class.

Now, since the worker class vastly outnumbered the “royalty” class throughout history, the royalty class has always had to rely on social conditioning / tradition / religion and other hierarchical power structures to enforce the division between the two classes.

The “worker bee” class was conditioned from birth to believe that they were born to be of a lesser class and with a lesser purpose than the royalty class.

Essentially people were conditioned to believe that their life’s purpose was to just be a worker bee, and to slave away all of their lives in order for the royalty class to have massive wealth…

… and as a worker bee, if you kept your nose clean, and you did as you were told, and you served your King and Queen honorably then you would die with honor and go to the Kingdom of Heaven and you could enjoy all the spoils in Heaven that you didn’t have access to here on Earth.

Essentially, in the olden days Religion was used by royalty more as a tool to control the population than as a spiritual tool for people to find God.

Today, a lot of things have changed, but the division between the wealthy elite and the “worker bee” class remains in tact.

The only difference today is that the wealthy elite utilize different tactics to control the population, relying on social conditioning and “mind viruses” to control the population.

Essentially they utilize social conditioning, mass media programming, and many other methods to condition people to have a certain set of beliefs related to working for a living and having jobs.

The “I Don’t Do It For the Money” Program

One of the primary programs that the wealthy elite use to keep people enslaved is the “I don’t do it for the money” program.

Essentially, the idea behind this program is to condition people from birth to believe that anything that they have a natural talent, affinity and love towards must NOT be something that they pursue as an income producing activity in their life.

Meaning, the program states “If you like doing it, and you enjoy it, and you’re good at it, and you have a talent for it, then you MUST NOT make money with it, otherwise you’re an evil bad guy who will go to hell.”

It may sound funny the way I describe it above, but you have no idea how often I hear GROWN ADULTS recite these words to me as if it’s gospel.

Logically and intuitively no sane adult would find any sense or truth in such a statement, but because of the way we are socially conditioned, we actually believe this bulls*&t.

So often I will meet artists, entrepreneurs, healers, and other ultra-talented people who have an amazing talent or skill that they’ve developed in their life, but they make their income working at a job that they hate…

… and they complain about their jobs and they tell me how they WISH that they could just quit working a job and to be able to focus on just doing what they LOVE and are talented in…

… but the SECOND I make any suggestion to them related to finding a way to make money with their talent, they SNAP back at me with this statement:

“Oh well I wouldn’t do that for money! That would be selling out!”

Meaning let’s say that they are a talented musician, and I offer them some suggestions for how they could make money with their music, they reply back with “No I wouldn’t want to make money with my music.”

Huh?!

Why not!?

Selling out?! You’re selling out by NOT making money with the things you love doing!

I mean, wait a second, you believe that working at some JOB that you hate, and that you despise waking up in the mornings to go to, and being around co-workers you don’t like and dealing with customers you can’t stand is somehow a “Godly” act that will get you in the good graces with the man upstairs…

… but the God-given talent you were given that you COULD be sharing with the world on a full-time basis if you just figured out and accepted that it is OKAY to make money with it…

… that talent you are NOT allowed to pursue, because then God will be pissed off at you?

Because you decided to monetize that which you are good at?

In what universe does that even make any sense?

Look, I realize that the wealthy elite that rule this planet have done an amazing job up until now of conditioning and programming us to believe that there is something WRONG or UNGODLY in making money doing what we love, but it’s time to let go of that BS.

Embrace your talents and doing what you love and embrace making money with it!!!

I’m a Blogger, and an Internet Marketer and I LOVE doing this stuff and I’m 100% okay with making money with it!

Why would I rather do something I hate and despise for money, when I can make money doing something I love?

If you think about your passions and talents and instantly your mind thinks “Oh, I wouldn’t want to do that for money” that’s probably a sign that your mind has been conditioned to not want to make money doing what you love.

The good news is you can change that conditioning.

The way to do it is to get around other people who have moved past this conditioning.

Get around as many people as you can who are making money doing what they love.

The only way they’re able to do that is by having eliminated that belief from their mental operating system, so by hanging around with those types of people you will start to model their thinking as well.

Another way to get rid of this type of limited thinking is to subscribe to the Inner Circle audio program from Empower Network.

Inside this system, you’ll find an entire library of audios which all work on different energetic levels to eliminate this negative program you have running in your mind.

It’s essentially a mental virus which tells you that there is something wrong with making money doing what you love.

To learn more about the Inner Circle program, click here.

Another way to start getting rid of this type of thinking is to read autobiographies by people who lived lives doing what they loved.

And to surround yourself with people who are doing that themselves.

See if you’re currently surrounded by other employee-minded people who all have this belief ingrained in their psyche, it’s not going to be easy to make that leap towards making money doing what you love.

That is why I highly recommend the Inner Circle program from Empower Network which will essentially unplug you from your negative programming with each audio that you listen to.

And of course joining an organization like the Empower Network is also a great way to get around other talented, like-minded people who ARE learning to make money doing what they love!

7 Affirmations to Help You Make More Money

March 23, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

Here are 7 affirmations which will help you to manifest more money and abundance in your life.

Feel free to PIN them, TWEET them or SHARE them on Facebook all you want.

#1 – I AM The Source of My Abundance

#2 – I Value My Time and Energy

#3 – All the Money I Spend and Earn Brings Me Joy

#4 – I live in an Abundant Universe and I Always Have Everything I Need

#5 – I Trust and Follow My Inner Guidance

#6 – I Have a Wealth of Valuable Skills and Talents

#7 – I Choose to Live an Abundant Life

PSYCH-K Subconscious Belief Change Technology

March 22, 2015 by Paul 2 Comments

As a student of personal development techniques for over 20 years now, one of the most fundamental teachings I learned early on is that our beliefs shape our destiny.

As Napoleon Hill said “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

The challenge with beliefs, however is that over 99.999% of all the beliefs that we believe are stored at the subconscious level of our minds.

Meaning, we have all these beliefs about EVERYTHING we experience in our reality and we don’t even realize it because almost all of our beliefs are subconscious.

In fact, we now know that we were already born with subconscious beliefs passed down to us by our mothers while we were still in the womb.

Scientists around the world who study epigenetics have even been showing that some beliefs are passed down to us inside of our DNA through multiple generations!

So the “bad” news is that most of your beliefs are not even known to you, they live subconsciously in your subconscious mind, and a lot of them were formed before you were even born, and some of them were passed down to you from your genetic ancestors.

Then the vast majority of the rest of your beliefs were programmed into your mind after your birth, as you were growing up, by your parents, siblings, family, teachers, the mass media, school mates, and then later your bosses, co-workers, etc.

Only a very tiny percentage of your current beliefs were CONSCIOUSLY formed in your mind by YOU making a conscious decision to form that belief.

Isn’t that crazy?

This is why it’s so difficult for most people to create lasting change in their lives, because in order to make lasting changes in your life you have to make changes to your beliefs…

… and since at best you consciously formed maybe 0.01% of your beliefs (if that), how can you expect to consciously CHANGE beliefs that you didn’t consciously CREATE in the first place?

So then what can we do?

What is PSYCH-K ?

PSYCH-K is a set of principles and processes which were designed to change subconscious beliefs that limit the expression of the full potential of a person.

Essentially, PSYCH-K allows us to gain access to the subconscious mind and to balance out any subconscious beliefs that are holding a person back from achieving whatever goal they are seeking to achieve.

Since our subconscious beliefs affect every area of our lives from our health to our relationships to our business and financial situation, PSYCH-K can be used to better virtually every area of our lives.

Personally I’ve been using PSYCH-K in my life for about 7 years now.

I started off by working with a trained PSYCH-K practitioner to help me balance out and eliminate certain blocks that were holding me back 7 years ago.

Then about 5 years ago I decided to learn how to do PSYCH-K myself and ended up getting trained and certified as both a PSYCH-K Basic and Advanced practitioner.

Since then I’ve been using PSYCH-K in my life on a consistent basis.

For example, this afternoon I had a rather frustrating situation unfold…

… my wife bought a new car last week, and this afternoon we were leaving the house to meet with the buyer of her old car to do the transfer of ownership…

… and as I walked out the door to get in her old car I realized I didn’t have the keys in my pocket, where I assumed they were.

I went back in the house and looked in the usual spot where I leave them – but they weren’t there.

So then I looked in the other two or three spots where I usually leave the keys, and once again they weren’t there.

Then my wife and I spent 20-30 minutes turning the house upside down looking for the keys!

They were nowhere to be found.

I checked every pocket of every article of clothing that I wore since last week, when we last drove the car.

I even went as far as pulling out the wet clothing inside my washing machine to make sure they weren’t inside one of the pockets of the clothes in the washer!

I moved furniture around to make sure the cats didn’t push the keys underneath the couch or something.

I mean we looked EVERYWHERE, and then we looked again in the same spots just to make sure we didn’t miss them.

Then as our frustration grew, I decided to stop and to grab my PSYCH-K binder and to do a PSYCH-K balance on the situation…

… because in the last 10 years we MAY have lost the keys in the house maybe once or twice and even then we found them in less than 5 minutes, so this was definitely an unusual situation…

… and I wanted to make sure that there wasn’t any kind of subconscious limiting beliefs stopping us from selling our old car!

Now, you might be wondering how could your subconscious mind stop you from selling your old car…

… well think of it like this…. did you know that a trained hypnotist can hypnotize someone and while in a hypnotic trance they can state a suggestion where they tell the person under hypnosis to not be able to see a physical object once they come out of hypnosis…

… and when that person comes out of hypnosis, they literally can NOT see what is right in front of their eyes!

Or have you ever been looking for something and couldn’t find it, and then another person walks into the room you’re in and points out that the object you’re looking for is right in front of your eyes?

Ever have that happen to you?

Well, that is the power of your subconscious mind. It can literally make you BLIND to physical objects. You just don’t notice them.

So I wanted to make sure that these car keys we were missing weren’t sitting right in front of us the whole time, while we were turning the house upside down.

I sat down and did a PSYCH-K session with myself really quickly, and I ended it by closing my eyes and just meditating for about 5 seconds.

While I had my eyes closed, I waited to receive a signal from my mind as to where to look.

Almost instantly I got the feeling / knowingness to go and look in our bedroom at the corner of the bed.

I went there and looked on the floor, trying to see if the keys somehow slid underneath the bed or to see if maybe the cats dragged them under there.

Nothing!

As I sat there for a second, I felt a little betrayed because I was SURE that they were supposed to be there.

The feeling I got was unmistakable. I didn’t understand. Why were the keys not in the spot that I somehow KNEW they were supposed to be after doing my PSYCH-K session and meditation?

Then I realized that in order to check the corner spot by the bed I had to move a laundry basket out of the way…

… could they somehow be in the laundry basket?

But I had already looked in there, and why would they be in the laundry basket anyways!?

I checked anyways… I pulled a layer of clothes out of the basket, slowly lifting each piece of clothing to see if maybe the keys were there…

and when I removed about 40% of the clothes from the basket, the keys were just laying there on top of the clothes…

… not inside a pocket or anything, but just as if someone PUT them there and then piled on a bunch of clothing overtop.

It made absolutely no sense for them to be there.

I still have no idea how they got there.

But what I do know is that we spent around 30 minutes looking for those keys and had no clue where they were…

… and then I used PSYCH-K to eliminate any subconscious blocks stopping me from finding them, and within about 30-60 seconds I had the keys in my hand.

That is the power of PSYCH-K.

Now, some people might say…“Oh yeah, well that’s a co-incidence.”

Seven years ago I would have probably said the same thing…

But today, after having used PSYCH-K in my life hundreds, if not thousands of times in the last 5 years I have zero doubt that PSYCH-K works as there is absolutely no way that all the experiences I had with PSYCH-K could all be co-incidences and blind luck.

I don’t know how PSYCH-K works, but I do know it works.

If you’ve never heard of PSYCH-K, I’d recommend looking into it.

It’s a really cool modality that has a very positive, transformational effect on people’s lives.

It’s not just for finding keys, by the way. 🙂

That’s just an example from how I used PSYCH-K in my personal life TODAY!

I have hundreds of other stories as well, but I don’t want to this blog post to be 10,000 words long, otherwise I’d share some other cool stories of how I used it in my life.

Also when using it with my clients, I’ve helped a lot of people make very quick transformations in their lives which they previously struggled with for years prior to using PSYCH-K.

If you’re ever interested in experiencing PSYCH-K for yourself, both my wife and I are practitioners.

To learn more you can check out my “Services” page or my wife’s website here.

Or if you’d prefer to become a certified practitioner of PSYCH-K yourself, you can find a listing of teachers in your local area here.

If you live in the Greater Vancouver area, I recommend my teacher Sandra Wallin if you’d like to get certified.

How To Get Rid of the Fear of What Others Think About You as a Blogger

March 19, 2015 by Paul 4 Comments

We live on a planet populated by over 7 billion people.

Each a unique spirit that came forth to this planet to experience contrast in order to establish a set of unique preferences which will aid in the expansion of the Universe.

In other words, each of us is here for a different reason to create a unique life with a unique set of preferences.

The next time you go to a grocery store or a shopping mall with a busy parking lot, just look around and notice all the different cars parked in their spots.

Why are all the cars different?

I mean as humans, shouldn’t we have already figured out which one of the thousands of cars available out there is the BEST car?

Shouldn’t we have at least figured out which COLOR is the best color?

Why is there still so many different types of cars out there in 2015? Why haven’t we figured out what the best option is and just all agreed to go with that option?

The reason is because we are ALL unique and all different, and our lives are different and our needs, desires and preferences are all different.

Intuitively, we all know this to be true.

But then if we’re all unique and different then why do we spend so much time and energy worrying about what other people think!?

This short video clip from Abraham / Hicks offers some great insight:

The interesting part that I really like from this video is how Abraham mentions that our well-meaning parents spent our childhood slowly but surely CONVINCING us that our happiness depended on pleasing them.

In other words, when we did things that pleased our parents, they applauded us, cheered us on, gave us positive attention and flowed love towards us.

And when we did things that were not pleasing to our parents, they yelled at us, scolded us, gave us negative attention and held back love from us.

They did this so that they could “steer” us away from danger and hurt and towards safety, as frankly we were still much too naive and inexperienced to be able to think for ourselves.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with this – it’s called parenting.

When we were young children we would often disagree with our parent’s opinions when we wanted something and we would try to think for ourselves.

Our parents would say “Don’t touch the oven, you’ll burn your hands!” and what would we do?

We would think they’re full of crap, and we would want to touch the oven.

Then we would touch the oven and we would burn our hands and then run crying to our parents, and they would say “I told you so! You need to LISTEN to me! I know what’s BEST for you!” as they consoled us.

Slowly but surely we would be conditioned to think that our parents knew what’s best for us and that we are often mistaken when we think we know what’s best for us.

Once that line of thinking was ingrained in our minds we would go to school, where we would meet our teachers and the whole process would begin again.

At first we would rebel against our teachers, but slowly over time we would be conditioned to the fact that THEY know what’s best for us.

We would be taken to the doctor’s office and again we would be taught that the doctor knows what’s best for us as well.

And the truth is that as children, these well-intentioned adults probably DID know what was better for us than we knew for ourselves – IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS!

If it wasn’t for them, we probably would have DIED by now doing all the stupid things that popped into our heads. 🙂

Sticking a fork in the electric socket? Yeah sure, that sounds like a great idea!!! 🙂

See my point?

… but the thing is that we are not children anymore. We are now adults and we have our own built-in “Emotional Guidance System” / Intuition and it is now mature and when we connect to it properly, *IT* is the true essence of us that knows what’s best for us – not our parents, our teachers our siblings or anyone else.

NOBODY knows what’s best for you except YOU and YOUR inner essence.

We all know this, but very often people still ask me…

“Paul, I don’t know why, but I still worry about what other people think… I try to write a Blog post but then I’m scared to publish it because I’m worried about what others might think…”

“Paul, I shot this video and I was going to upload it to YouTube, but then I got this like crazy fear of what people might think of me! I don’t get it. Why do I care so much what people think of me!?”

Well, the truth is that the reason why you CARE is because for the first 18 years of your life you were PROGRAMMED / CONDITIONED with a program that could essentially be reduced down to this statement:

“Do what pleases your parents, teachers, friends, society or you MIGHT DIE! You don’t want to DIE do you!?”

Of course it wasn’t stated in this way, with this type of extreme language, but that is essentially how we were programmed.

Again, when we did things that pleased our parents, we were given what we wanted, positive attention, love and affection.

And when we did the opposite we received the opposite.

Couple that with the fact that our very DNA is programmed with the programming that in order to survive we must be a part of the PACK / HERD, otherwise if we are expelled form the PACK / HERD we will be alone in the wilderness and then we will die!

Is it any wonder that we grow up to be adults who can’t think for ourselves without worrying about what others might think, and we can’t even do something as SIMPLE as writing a Blog post or shooting a video and uploading it to YouTube?

See, before you write that blog post and publish it…you’re part of your HERD.

You’re part of the PACK.

Safe!

But what if you click that publish button, and write that Blog post, where you share YOUR truth, with all the positive intentions that you may have… and then what if the HERD / PACK rejects you!

You might die!

Well, not really… but that is what the child inside of you has been programmed with.

It took me TWO DAYS to publish my first Blog post.

I wrote it, and re-wrote it and printed it out and read it over and over again and I was CONCERNED!

“What if people think this is stupid?”

“What if my boss reads this?”

“What if my co-workers read this and make fun of me?!”

“What if … what if… what if!!!!”

And finally I DID publish that post. And I didn’t die!

Then I published another, and another, and another.

And slowly but surely I eliminated my fear of what people think…

… I write my Blog posts with ease now because I don’t really care what others think.

Of course I want *SOME* people (ie. my target market) to get value from my blog posts, but I don’t care what people think of ME for writing the posts.

That is one of the most precious gifts and benefits you can get from blogging.

The GIFT of slowly and gently growing more and more confident in your ability to NOT GIVE A SHIT what the rest of the HERD/PACK thinks of you!

So when people say to me “Paul, how do I overcome this constant WORRY I have of what others think of me!?”

My answer is simple…

KEEP BLOGGING!

As you Blog, you’ll start to get followers and people telling you how much value they get from your Blog posts…

… and also at the same time you’ll start getting some “haters”.

This is normal! Don’t freak out when you get a “hater”.

All it means is that you’re doing the right things.

It means that you’re polarizing your blog audience, which is exactly what you want.

Let me give you an example…

One of the qualities of my target market is that my target market takes 100% responsibility for their lives.

People who try to blame others for things that go wrong in their lives are NOT my target market.

So when people like that arrive on my Blog, they usually become my “haters”, and that’s okay because I’m not here to help those types of people.

For example, I once had a lady email me blaming me for the fact that her 12 year old son was on her computer / Internet, and he came across my Blog where I had said the word “crap” and she didn’t appreciate me exposing her son to such vulgar language.

She actually emailed me saying that!

LOL!

I kindly pointed her towards my terms and conditions where I clearly state that anyone who is under 18 should NOT be reading my site as heck, from time to time I might say something as vulgar as the word “CRAP” (gasp!), but at the same time it boggled my mind as to how naive this lady was…

… she was giving her 12 year old son UNRESTRICTED access to a computer with a full Internet connection and the thing she was worried about exposing him to was my blog saying the word CRAP?!!!

Seriously!? Has she not seen what’s on the Internet?!

Not only that, but does she really think that the worst word her son has heard growing up and going to school as a 12 year old is the word “crap”?

My point though is that as I kept blogging, and my audience grew, from time to time I would get these comments or emails from “haters” and they come in all shapes and sizes. 🙂

But the cool thing is that as you KEEP BLOGGING, you start to build confidence and these types of opinions of others begin to matter less and less and less to you…

… and that is where TRUE FREEDOM starts to spring from in your life.

Because just think about it…

… imagine if you have ALL the money in the world… like let’s say you won the lottery…

… and imagine you had ALL the time in the world…

… and you thought that those things would give you FREEDOM…

… but you hadn’t yet overcome your fear of what others think of you…

How free would you really be?

You wouldn’t be free at all, would you!!!???

You’d just be a retired, rich person who was still like a little CHILD… spending every day of their life worrying about what others think of them!

Sometimes people say to me “Paul, yeah…I don’t know if Blogging is for me… I don’t know if I’m comfortable posting my thoughts online… I worry too much what people think… that’s why I’m thinking of starting this business over here… I think I can make a lot of money with it, and I don’t have to Blog and worry about being judged.”

Really?

And let’s say you DO make a lot of money with “THAT” business over there… will you really be FREE if you still stay up at night worrying about what others think of you?

That’s not freedom.

True freedom comes from honoring the child inside of you who didn’t know what was best for you in certain situations growing up, and at the same time letting that child go, and allowing the ADULT version of you to come forth and to start thinking for yourself and NOT worrying what the “HERD” thinks of you.

That is the only way you’ll ever be free.

You can’t be free if you continue to live your entire life trying to please everyone around you, somehow expecting to derive happiness from that.

So what’s the best way to take one tiny little step forward towards overcoming your fear of what others think of you?

Start a blog and write your first post.

Then publish another.

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