Hello my friends!
Today is a very exciting day as we are launching this blog to assist you in going to the next level in your training, so that you can elevate yourself in the 5 Areas of Focus of the Family Unicity Network. Whether you are a member or not, this blog will be of great benefit to you if you are ready to receive the knowledge and wisdom it contains.
Let’s review the 5 Areas of Focus now so that they are fresh in your mind as you begin reading this blog.
5 Areas of Focus
- Joy & Happiness
- Financial Freedom (Time & Attention)
- Purpose & Fulfillment
- The Power to Create & Manifest
- Connection & Community
Reading and engaging with this blog will make a very positive difference in your life. Notice I didn’t say “this blog” will make a difference in your life. This information contained in this blog will certainly be very powerful, however, the difference this blog can make for you personally is 100% dependent on you! Only YOU can read, reflect and generate insights that will affect how you feel, what you think, and what you do which will ultimately impact the results that manifest in your life.
I promise this blog will always be entirely about you. I will not write for the purposes of showing off all that I know or to satisfy some desire to be a “motivational speaker.” I have no desire to be a “blogger” for the sake of being a “blogger.” Instead, this blog will be intentionally designed to be of benefit to you in your real life so that you can become and achieve all that you desire to become and achieve.
Since this is a written blog. Let’s begin with the value of reading as it pertains to your success in life. Reading itself is a success principle. The most successful people on the planet read… a lot. Listening to audio recordings and attending events are also very powerful and necessary. All three ways of absorbing information impact your brain in different ways. In order to increase your success quotient you must engage in all three methods because they will cause you to develop the neural pathways for success exponentially faster. This is why we share this information in all 3 mediums.
Think about this idea for a moment. If you were overweight and you wanted to get in shape, you could start going to the gym and working out 3 or 4 times a week and you certainly benefit from this process. However, if you continue to eat junk food everyday, your progress would be very slow and you would likely never achieve your goal. The body needs good fuel for your workouts. In fact, only working out while feeding your body garbage food could potentially begin to have a negative impact on you as you would not be getting the nutrition you need to repair and heal after your workouts.
But imagine you were to incorporate a healthy diet with your exercise routine as well. Now you are working out and you are eating a well-balanced nutritional diet. How much faster would you achieve the results you desire?
There is an exponential effect that occurs when you apply 2 or more success habits. Your success doesn’t just double, it triples or quadruples (or greater). If you have only been listening to success audios or watching success videos or attending live events, this is your opportunity to add in a key missing ingredient – reading.
If we were to simply transcribe the audio/video recordings that you have already watched or listened to as a member of the Family Unicity Network and you were to read those transcriptions, the exact same information, presented in a different medium would affect your brain differently. Engaging a different part of your brain will open up new insights and realizations that you missed in the audio recording. This is why reading is a necessary component in your success.
For ages, information like this has been passed on, both orally and in text. You may think that you can just listen to audios alone. Maybe you like doing other things while you listen because you want to be efficient, but is this really more efficient? When you sit and read, you can’t do anything else, you have to give 100% of your attention to what you are doing. Listening to audio recordings is definitely important and has its benefits, but think about it. If you get distracted and stop listening to an audio, the audio keeps going. When you read, you cannot get away with this because reading is a more generative and active process when done correctly.
Information delivered in text is magical and in this blog, it is my desire to not only share information with you, but to teach you how you can get more out of what you are reading so that you can actually use the information to create a better life for yourself.
You’ve already read about why reading is important but did you really get it? Do you really understand how important reading is now that you’ve read those last few paragraphs? Probably not. In fact, you probably didn’t even notice that you didn’t “get it” entirely. Even as I am pointing it out now, you are still not getting it. By acknowledging this, you have the opportunity to notice how open and teachable you really are and then make the appropriate adjustments.
The first reason for this is that most people have a damaged relationship to reading. Perhaps it began when you were young. We were made to read books that we had no real interest in reading. We got through the book as quickly as we could, because it was homework. Perhaps you have anxiety about reading because you were made to read in front of the class and you didn’t feel confident that you knew all the words. Or, perhaps you won’t allow yourself the time to sit down and enjoy a good book because you feel like you have so many other “more important” things to do. Whatever the issue may be, it is of paramount importance that you overcome these issues and learn to love reading again. You must learn to read for your own enjoyment and your own benefit, not because you will be punished or ridiculed if you do not.
The result of these old patterns when it comes to reading is that we end up reading in a more passive way. We tend not to truly engage with the material in a generative way. When you read, you must pause and reflect. You must reread a sentence or paragraph over and over again to understand it more deeply. You must be fully at cause in generating insights for yourself. Don’t hope the text will do something to you. Expose yourself to the ideas in the text but then take it a step further. Have ideas about the ideas in the text. Do it right now! Think about what you are reading.
It isn’t about how many books you read. The real power of reading comes from the amount of time you spend reading and reflecting on the ideas. You can read the same paragraph or even the same sentence over and over again and get more benefit than if you read 10 books without any generative reflection at all. It is your insights about what you are reading that really matter.
Right now, we are having a conversation and you have to bring yourself to this conversation. Don’t just let me talk while you smile and nod and pretend you are listening. Think about what I’m saying and have a new insight about it. You may even want to go back and reread this entire post before you move on. There is information in this post that can change your life and you’ve likely missed it. You think you got it but there is so much more that you didn’t get. Go look for it, and if you do, you will be surprised by how much more is in the text than you originally thought. Engage fully because you will only get what you put into it.
As we continue, only you can generate this kind of active reading. I may remind you again later but the best way for you to remember is to practice it now. See the benefits of active reading for yourself. Have an experience for yourself and you will integrate the learning from this lesson more fully into your mind. If you find that you are getting bored or that the information has become less interesting to you, consider that you are the one who is boring. You are not being a good conversationalist. You are not engaging. When you remember this, you can correct this issue and start to actively read again.
So remember, reading is a success principle AND it is not enough just to read. You must understand what you are reading. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up. You must also reflect on what you are reading and bring yourself to the conversation by generating insights for yourself. Then, apply your insight in your real life to lock in that lesson. Then when you come back to the same information and reread it, you will be a new person. You will be able to go even deeper into your understanding of the principles contained in this blog.
Remember, you think you know it because you read it, but you never know it fully. There is always more to get and this should be exciting to you. It is not about reading as many books as you can. It is about spending more time reading, understanding, reflecting, and generating insights that you can apply in your life.
Together, we will go on a journey. As you read this blog, you will get what you need. As you read, you will find that each blog post comes naturally out of the one before. We are going through this process together and when we have spent some time reflecting on one success principle, the next one will always seems perfect for what you are dealing with in your life right now. You don’t have to understand why this is so right now. Just know that all will be revealed in perfect time. You can do it. Trust yourself and trust the process.
