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INTUITION or Bust!

Do you have good intuition?
Most of us like to think we are perceptive but what about that borderline spooky stuff that lets us know who is about to call on the phone, or which route to take home to avoid an accident.

Science is slowly getting up to speed on this topic, although the debate is a hot one.

But since intuition is such a big part of personal change, especially the ‘how to’ part, I thought you might be interested in two recent studies that actually influenced our decision to start The Life Change Experiment.

The first was a study in which a group of people who were asked to intuitively pick the best of a group of items. Whilst a second group were given all the details about the items and asked to make a deliberate conscious decision. Much to the researchers surprise the intuitive ‘shopper’s’ ability to pick the overall best items, substantially outweighed those who studied the details and used their Left brain (logic, reasons, rules etc) to make their decision.

Curious? I thought so!

We’re all taught that ‘reason rules’ but clearly there is something else going on here. What exactly it is of course is open to interpretation but I thought it deserved further research.

The next study was one on psychic intuition. In other words picking up on other people’s thoughts or future occurrences. I have always been a curious agnostic in areas of the psychic, but the results were startling. It conclusively and repeatedly showed, that those who BELIEVED in the phenomena had substantially above average positive results, while those who didn’t scored only what would be expected with guessing.

This was a revelation for me!

If im busy ‘not believing’ in things that could make my life richer, happier or more fulfilled then it would be impossible for me to benefit from their effects even if they were legitimate.

I realised that over the last few years my ‘skeptics nature’ and fear of being called a fool had in fact negatively colored the quality of my life, and hence the results I was getting.

So do we simply blindly believe! Well the funny thing is we do anyway.

We blindly believe that we will survive the day, that our version of ‘normal’ is the real normal. That our life, self esteem or happiness is our lot, That our enemies are ‘deep down’ bad people. That our society is the right society. That certain people are intrinsically more worthy than others, That our kids or family are special, That money will make us happy, and millions of other daily imbibed mass illusions we simply agree on hence give life too.’

The Life Change Experiment is our leap of ‘faith’. A conscious effort to break my skeptic thinking, as well as that of the mass illusions I have let dictate our life to date.

I'll always look for science proof. It’s just something I love to do, but I will no longer right off things simply because I haven’t experienced them. Especially if they add quality and joy to the believers life.

YOUR EXPERIENCES: - Developing a strong and accurate intuition is probably the single greatest tool we have if we want a greater quality of life. So I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences. Especially the spooky kind (out of a scientific curiosity haha).

I would also like to do some experiments, perhaps putting out a small intuitive thought for the day of my own. On similar lines to Gaz Lowes Intuitive horoscopes. If you find these messages resonates with you let me know.

In the mean time, don’t deprive yourself the chance of experience the full wonder and mystery of life simply because you fear opening your mind a little!

WEEKLY UPDATE - Inspiration is Not Spoken- ITS HEARD

Most of us think we don’t know enough to help others or have anything inspirational to say about life. RUBBISH!!

A life changing lesson can be learnt from getting a parking ticket, watching a sunset or holding a baby, none of which you would traditionally classify as 'wise' or actively inspiring!

A single word, even a hurtful one, can change a whole life! Heck a simple silence can do the same.

So it has really NEVER been about the ‘wisdom’ of the person that gives the words, or even what they are! It has only ever been about the person that RECEIVES and PERCEIVES THEM!

The person who is ready to hear! Who's mind and heart ignite in a flood of realisation! "oohh yeah that’s true".

Fact is words outside you only act as sign posts to help you remember your own truths within, so keep your ears and eyes open, wisdom is all around you and don’t be afraid to open your moth and share what you learn!

You just NEVER KNOW who is waiting desperately to hear the very thing that’s on your heart to say.

UPDATE

Well the new website is up and starting to come together. Please check it out and give us your suggestions. Everyday we will be putting a little more on and building the resources as we travel. So your input is essential.

CHANGE: - I have been trying to quantify what is needed to help people with their changes be they career, personal, romantic, self or health. I know for me it has been about great information, and pressure free regular support, all things I am trying to build into the new site. But if you have something else you think would benefit others please let us know. help@thelifechangeexperiment.com

HUGOS 1st:- We had a great time at Hugo’s 1st Birthday in Manly. I must admit I love this place. Saw lots of old friends and took a pic with BlueBelle and our old buddy Lisa Oldfield. Bessie doesn’t miss the party scene at all but I don’t mind a little schmoozing with some old mates and a good cocktail once in a while.

SASSY AWARDS:- Had a great time at literary agent Selwa Anthony’s sassy awards. Of course it only dawned on me I had given away all my jackets an hour before we had to be there. Fortunately I managed to find one at the bottom of a box of rubbish. Every one at the open day must have thought it sucked, but thank god they did because at least I had something to wear!

WONDERFUL HELPERS

This week we had the lovely felicity come to help out. This young lady has a rather cool high powered Canberra job but spends her spare time helping people in need. We were very lucky she contacted us and spent 3 days taking some of the pressure of us in the research and email department. Her warmth and obvious heart to help others was a wonderful inspiration and example to both of us, and I think she has given us a little bit of a reminder of the type of people we aspire to be. Thanks Felicity

SING YOUR SONG - Before the tune runs out!

I posted a wonderful quote by my old mate Amir Zoghi yesterday and it really hit a chord with me.

"From the bottom of your heart,

seek what makes you sing and once you find it,

do nothing but sing your song.

Chance everything to dance to your tune.

It says in a nutshell what my heart had literally screamed at me for the last 20 years!

Unfortunately I was a big ol' chicken! Petrified of stepping too far out of my comfort zone, risking all I believed I had built up, and worse still looking like a raving lunatic in front of all my fancy friends haha!

‘Letting go’ certainly wasn’t conducive to the lifestyle and image I was trying to portray and create! The one I ‘thought’ was going to make me happy.

Don’t you think it is strange the power ‘fitting in’ has over us? Is being seen as ‘normal’ or ‘successful’ really so important we are willing to sacrifice the happiness of our entire life, to satisfy the critical eye of the few who we call our peers.

For me I banged my head on life everyday hoping for different results. Maybe one day life would crack and I’d wake up without a ‘headache,’ I thought!

Of course in a head banging contest life always wins, and eventually as the ‘pain relievers’ and ‘distractions’ I had used to numb myself over the years wore off, there was and ever increasing realisation that, this AIN’T WORKING!

This human trait of ‘self’ preservation, to ‘stay within our box’ no matter what the price,’ has always fascinated me.

How can we want to change so much but be so terrified of the consequences.
Especially when these days the consequences are hardly being cast out of the tribe to starve to death in Jurassic park.

Our self image is a powerful thing and we defend it literally to the death.

But what exactly is it? What is pride? Fear? Ego? Self Image? – It is the exact reflection of that which we believe we are missing or will lose. (Think about that for a second)

We create our self image and defend it so passionately because it compensates for what we believe we are NOT! It is our smoke screen, our sanctuary from the scary world around us. Like the puffer fish that blows itself up when frightened to look twice its size!
Even a poor self image protects us from taking risks that might involve humiliation or emotional pain.

Like a lover with rose coloured glasses in an abusive relationship. We see only the protection it gives us and not the pain the self critic inflicts on us, or the freedom and life it is keeping us from.

So how do you Let Go of this controlling old ‘lover’ and really live?

For me its been surprisingly simple! once i figuerd it out. (Although it took 20 years I admit)

Find YOUR song. And sing it with all your heart. Stop second guessing yourself and trying to sing other peoples song’s

Just like any song it will have high notes and low. You don’t have to know how it ends, or even what the next line is, you just have to sing what is given to you with all your heart.

And you may find, as I have done much to my surprise, that others in this world will be singing along with you!

UPDATE:- AMAZING INTERVIEWS

We have already started interviewing some amazing people with some life altering ideas. We will be showing these interviews when the new Video Blog is set up, and discussing with you the topics they cover. So stick around and PLEASE be part of the conversation, so we can learn from you too.

A BREATH of Fresh air ONE step at a time

It is a VERY surreal feeling. Sitting here today with little more than the clothes on my back as possessions. I feel so incredibly FREE for the first time in years. I feel almost ELATED!!......... WE DID IT!!

This crazy, stupid, irresponsible, wonderful, enlightening, thing! My god it was a trial, but stage one is over and I REALLY AM sitting here a changed person. With a spring in my step and lightness in my heart like I have not experienced since I was a teenager.

The world is truly our Oyster! And we are open, ready and inspired to go on the journey the universe had planned for us from the beginning. The very journey we had been fighting against for the last 20 years, simply because WE KNEW BETTER. We could plan and control better. We knew what we REALLY wanted!.... Didn’t we?

Of course now I look back and realise just how little I actually did control, other than perhaps the stubbornness to not let go of the dreams of my ego, and the self deprecating voice reminding me I was useless and should not venture too far out of my box.

But today – Free of everything I allowed to define me, I don’t feel in the slightest bit ‘without’. I don’t feel poor, or less. In fact im watching commercials on TV now and seeing dust, rust and debt rather than a sparkling new product that will make my life all I hoped it would be!

I looked out the window yesterday and realized all the beauty and the sunshine, the roads, the trees, the conversation, the beaches, the experiences were 100% FREE – So I set about talking to people I wouldn’t normally stop and talk to and that opened my eyes to new possibilities. Possibilities I would NEVER have seen with my head down and bum up in my old ivory rut!

ONE STEP

My sister has been here for the past few days and we were talking about how hard it is to do things when we can only see objections and barriers to the journey.

I pointed to a large highly wooded hill and said ‘If someone said lets go to the top of that hill, from here you would say It’s impossible. To steep and thickly wooded, I can’t see any paths and it looks so far away.

But if we simply concentrated on the part we COULD SEE, by putting our shoes on and stepping out the door in the general direction, we would find after a short time that the woods weren’t so thick. The hill not so steep and the fact there is even a perfect little path helping us wind our way up to the summit.

From where we sat complaining about the impossibility of it all, none of these aids and ‘opportunities’ existed in the world we perceived.

It was a perfect example of how we felt before we were ready to put on our shoes and step out on this Experiment. However just like the little path that appeared we have had more opportunities open up in the last 2 weeks than I ever could have ever existed.

The lesson in this for me is NEVER EVER judge your ability to ‘walk a path’ any further than the next step in front of you.

STOP trying to predict what will happen on the way to the top – YOU HAVE NO IDEA. The universe doesn’t need you to work out all the solutions, plan the whole route and solve all the difficulties you may (or may not) come across on the way.

It takes care of all that for you when you get there!. You just have to put one foot in front of the other TODAY ! So why do we make it so complicated!

P.s Can you guys remind us of this next time we fall to pieces haha

WEEKLY UPDATE - Thanks for making it a great open day

OPEN DAY - What a fantastic day yesterdays open day was. Was so nice to meet so many of you and get to put some faces to names. Thanks also to my wonderful volunteers who worked everso hard to get it all out and keep everyone in order.

Everything went surprisingly smoothly and we have finally got rid of the left over nick knacks that hadn’t been allocated to anyone.

We still have a few items left waiting to be couriered (by the wonderful guys at PACK & SEND) to the recipients up country, and a few remaining items we still haven’t chosen a home for yet. This we will do over the next week.

NEW ENERGY – There is very definitely a new energy in and around us – I woke up feeling a mix off relief, like I had taken of a heavy old dusty coat, and sorrow like I had lost a part of me. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

One thing that is really nice is to imagine how the people who have received the items must feel wearing them. It’s a strange feeling to think you have physically made a difference in a bunch of stranger’s lives!

I think sometime when we give to a charity we lose that personal touch. The name, the face, the reaction and effect your contribution makes. That’s why we have decided to put the ‘personal’ back into helping people and experiment with what effect that has on our lives and others as we go around Australia.

EMAILING EVERYONE – A few people have been quite upset that we haven’t sent out an email yet telling everyone what is happening. This is for two reasons. First up until this weekend we still hadn’t allocated anything. And second we discovered the current email system we were using would cost over $1000 to send to that many recipients. Unfortunately we don’t have that spare, so we have had to get a new system set up which is underway as we speak.

I promise within 10 days we will have an email out to everyone letting you know exactly what’s happening with the giveaway and what else is unfolding literally day by day with the experiment.

JUST BEGINNING – Of course now we are clutter free the experiment is really just beginning.

Just because you didn’t get an item does not mean we will not be coming to your area to help YOU out.

The next stage of the adventure, which you will be able to watch live on our new site, will be going around Australia, following the flow and helping people as we go. So if your email touched us you may find us rocking up on your doorstep to help out.

SUGGESTIONS – Please keep the location suggestions, needy people suggestions and inspirational people & places suggestions coming – Send them to help@thelifechangeexperiment.com

YOUR COMPANY – Would your company like to get involved, along with Winnebago, and the other wonderful companies that have come on board our national Life Change Experiment. We are looking for people or companies that may be able to offer a few products or services to allow us to help more people on our journey. Even if you don’t think you have anything to offer give us a buzz anyway because you never know how you may be able to fit in. help@thelifechangeexperiment.com

WINNEBAGO- The wonderful guys at Winnebago Australia have generously allowed us to use one of their incredible vehicles to be able to travel and continue the Life Change Experiment. Their involvement has been an amazing example of flow in action, and we cant wait to see where this leads us next.

We got our first peek at the vehicle this weekend when they brought it around for our Open Day! Wow I wish we had known about these things years ago. It is like a home from home. Youll get to see lots more of it as we go around via our upcoming Video Blog.

Special thanks to my little niece Charli for minding BlueBelle xxxxx

Ok enough chit chat – Back to enjoying the free sunshine, POSESSION FREE :-) -

What a DIFFERENCE a day makes!!

BUMPING GOOD REMINDER - Yesterday BlueBelle had her first big accident aaaahhhhhh. Poor little thing wiggled her way of the change table and onto the hard bathroom floor a meter or more down – So Bessie rushed to casualty crying more than the baby was!

I guess this brought home the reality of future safety issues, but its amazing how something like this can shake your confidence. You realise the vulnerability of the moments we take for granted. Any one of them holds the potential for life, death.

As I read the news online today, I was acutely aware of our fragility. Tomorrow’s paper will be full of people and families who are totally unaware of their fate today!

For me the news is a GREAT, in your face daily reminder, to ask the question, ‘if I knew I was to be one of those people how would I live this day differently’

CALM IN THE STORM – Ok so I admit there were a few tears yesterday. The drama of BB’s first skydiving lesson combined with the logistics nightmare this giveaway has become I honestly felt at an all time low. You may have noticed I avoided writing the blog. I must have started it 20 times but felt so detached I didn’t want to post something that felt to me so out of flow

‘Fortunately,’ and I use that word in retrospect coz at the time I was ropeable, BlueBelle was playing up so much that despite all the work, calls, organising, writing, putting out fires, blogs n everything else I was supposed to be doing I had no choice but to take her outside for a walk – Effectively she forced me to LET GO.

I was FURIOUS at the time but decided to take the opportunity to ask WHY?

I realised this was a great opportunity to find out a little more about what im subconsciously holding onto, and it worked wonders in re aligning my mood!

BIRTHDAY – So BlueBelle and I ended up going shopping for mummy’s birthday. Finding something to buy for the woman who has nothing is quite a challenge, but we settled on lots of edible Gluten free goodies and a lotto ticket! Could use the cash about now. We then made her favourite toffee sauce and poured it over a meringue and put a candle in the top. She LOVED IT!

The more I live this experiment the more im convinced that stress and worry are nothing more than guiding hands trying to bring us back into flow. Not emotions to be battled with, buried or ignored!

HUBBLE – And this morning as almost a reminder to me how trivial any of my earthly dramas are in the big scheme of things, I was greeted by news of NEW images from the upgraded Hubble space telescope. Why do I love this so much?

Just have a look at the images and put yourself and your problems in perspective http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/09/hubble-wows-with-new-images/

Every single pin prick of light is a giant sun with an entire solar system of its own trillions and trillions and trillions of miles away. With Cataclysmic storms and explosions bigger than our whole solar system, eco systems, night and day maybe even life. And here is lil’ ol’ me sitting at my computer thinking my little universe and problems are so big and important …. WHAT A GREAT BIG COSMIC JOKE hahahahahhahahaha

WHY ALL THE FUSS? & Giveaway UPDATE

A few people have pointed out that if we were REALLY interested in enlightenment, change, a new life, etc we wouldn’t be spending our time blogging, organising a public adventure and letting as many people know about it as possible!


I thought about this a lot and the truth is I have spent 20 years trying to break out of my rut. I have read everything under the sun, practiced many disciplines, been to more seminars and workshops than you can shake a stick at. Yet despite a huge and costly effort on my part something was always missing.

In the end the things that made the most difference to me was the inspiration and help of a few ‘angels’. People with a passion to help who, despite my rude resistance, sceptic’s indignation and manic depression in the early years never gave up on me.

These were not family- not even people I knew as friends in the typical sense. They were people who were just there. Sharing the wisdom they had in good times and bad.

Without them to bounce my thoughts off I may never have come out of the dark places my life was going into.

So you ask ‘WHY do we make such a public declaration of this ‘Life Change Experiment’ – two reasons.

1) Not everyone is lucky enough to have the angels we had. My hope is for a community of like minded people – Helping facilitate the old saying “When the student is ready the masters will appears”.

Books just don’t cut it on their own, but free, live, day by day, community, research, collective wisdom, inspiration and support can make all the difference.

2) This is after all an experiment and experiments need data. More people = more data and better results. Personally I want to learn as much as I can about how people improve their lives and overcome their hurdles. And I want to share that with as many people as want to know.

Finally the joy we are receiving from doing what is so out of our comfort zone is indescribably liberating and fun. So rather than worrying about WHY we are letting people know about it – Perhaps you should wonder why you AREN’T!

BIG GIVE AWAY FINAL OPEN DAY

On another note - Would you like to come along to our BIG GIVEAWAY final open day in Mona Vale Sydney.

We will be letting those who come rummage through the remainder of the substantial amount of stuff yet to be claimed and Today Tonight will be here to film some winners

We would love to see you and say hi. Email us if you would like details me@bessiebardot.com – This is invitation only so PLEASE don’t pass the details on to anyone but direct family.

Busy Busy Flow NO!!!!

I couldn’t sleep this morning. It’s not like I hadn’t been up twice in the middle of the night with loulee (BlueBelle). I should have been knackered but I just woke with a million fresh ideas and things to do.

Now ‘things to do’ feels GREAT doesn’t it. And I bounded out of bed with all the enthusiasm of a three legged frog on Bastille day!

I whisked past Bessie and Bluebelle, franticly trying to cling to my thoughts, before the neurons holding them remembered the past 10 years of abuse and went back to sleep. – Damn my memory is bad!

TO DO...

• Upload Gaz’z NEW INTUITIVE HOROSCOPES on our site for everyone to benefit from (done)

• Start a page where people can post there FAVOURITE MOVIES. Inspirational, life lessons or heart warming. So we can all benefit (thanks for the ‘Pay it Forward tip’ guys it was great)

• Start a ‘GO WITH THE FLOW’ page – documenting each thing, person or oppertunity that comes into our life via this experiment, and where it flowed from, and to.

• Put together a proposal to get corporates and individuals excited (generosity wise) about ‘HELPING PEOPLE REAL TIME and physically rather than just with words and good intentions, as we go around

• Start working out route and logistics. Hmm not as easy as I had thought!!

• Prepare for next, Today Tonight interview and actually MEETING the recipients. Invite others to come and help themselves to anything left.

• Interview several young people who have volunteered to help, by traveling around with us, minding BlueBelle and assisting with making video blog as good as possible.

• Put together our ‘one on one workshops’ hopefully to be able to cover petrol, food and expenses on the way. Think of alternatives – We gotta eat!!!!

• Write this blog, update facebook, twitter, find great quotes, contact possible transportation options, contact recipients………….etc etc etc

You get the point!!

But then half way between making coffee, blowing off my usual meditation, kissing the baby and looking for my Ipod while I still have it to enjoy, something inside yelled….

STOP!!!!!

It took all my strength, but I begrudgingly plonked myself on the couch outside, put some earplugs in and sat there until, eventually, the ‘must do’ subsided and I realised how totally unimportant ALL of my 'AMAZING IDEAS' and PRESSING TASKS really were in the scheme of things!

Worse I realise how my enthusiasm had secretly tricked me into believeing my own hype! Like i knew exactly what to do.
So my fellow travellers. My lesson here today is. VIGILANCE!!

It’s not at times of misery or trouble that we fall out of flow, it’s our times of elation and apparent purpose, when we think WE are more important than that silent little voice saying............

 ‘SIT geoff. Sit be still and LISTEN’!

LOVE TO KNOW :- If you experience the same and how you deal with the subtle art of staying centred  busy!

THE SCEPTICS CONFESSION

Some of you may be surprised to know I spent most of my life a huge and vocal sceptic of all things spiritual or self help. It makes me chuckle a little that others may now look at me with the same contempt I once had.

To be honest it wasn’t that I dismissed it all without thought! Quite the opposite! I had literally spent most of my life researching everything I could get my hands on, and simply found that most of it just didn’t stack up to basic fact based scrutiny .

I had seen my fair share of hypocrites, charlatans and plain gullible idiots! And I did not intend to be one of them.
It used to piss me off that the ‘faithful’ would ignore such blindingly obvious facts rather than admit their belief system was WRONG! I just didn’t get it!

BUT WERE THEY WRONG? Or had I just missed the point.

Most of my life I suffered depression and a gnawing sense of dread and un-fulfilment. My inner dialogue reminded me daily that:-

I had done nothing with my life, I was usless!
Let down my parents and friends. Not lived up to expectations,
Let myself down by wasting my chances and being lazy and un motivated
Was a failure in the eyes of society, and would be humiliated, if I even tried to step out of my comfort zones and make more of my life. – Sound familiar?

One day in a mess of booze and misery I tried a thought experiment. I ran through all the things I knew to be 100% TRUE about myself and the world around me.

To my amazement I realised (from the literal scientific perspective) VERY LITTLE is 100% PROVABLY TRUE or FALSE. It ALL depended on where you were standing and your perception at the time! Einstein new all about this paradox. .

In that moment I GOT IT! The quality of our lives is based on the perception we project onto our world, rather than the so called 'facts.'
Suddenly i realized, happiness and misery have NEVER been provable ‘facts’ any more than love, right, wrong or worry are. They have only ever been perception based belief system I had CHOSEN to implement!

WOW!! That changed so much of what i had 'always thought' and allowed to colour my life!

I realised that all these multitude of new age, spiritual or self help belief systems I had dismissed because they couldn’t be ‘proven’ were not there to be proven.

It was the 'experience' of 'believing' that counted and changed lives, and that could only ever be proven, by the individual, too the individual.

SO HOW DOES THIS WORK? - Well one explanation is, like Movies, Hobbies, Sport, Sex an emergency and other situation that focus the mind and cut out intruding thoughts - Strong beliefs do the same. Giving us hitherto unrealised strengths and courage to move forward relatively unhindered by our usual whinging, fearful subconscious!

That’s how a die hard sceptic no longer has a problem with discussing the more ‘enlightened’ side of life. If its true to you then, just maybe that is all TRUTH is!

At the end of the day I realised, since the thoughts that made me unhappy were no more 'real' than the ones that would make me happy, I really shouldn’t give the bad ones so much power to determine the quality of my life.

WHAT ARE YOU PROJECTING INTO YOUR WORLD TODAY

Hope this helps. It utterly changed my quality of life almost overnight :-) SO ENJOY messing with your preconcieved beliefs a little this week!

Im looking fwd to expanding my understanding of this, as we meet and experience other people’s belief systems on this Life Change Experiment. - Love to hear your thoughts!

WEEKLY UPDATE

- Geoff Blog--------

GIVEAWAY CLOSED – Finally we can get down to the mammoth task of sorting out who gets what. PLEASE be patient as the logistics are a nightmare. We will LET YOU KNOW BY EMAIL if you are to receive anything – PLEASE don’t contact us to find out as it only makes more emails to respond to.

MORE FREE STUFF – It looks like most people went for the obvious items. That means there are lots of things left that no one has claimed. We are going to have an OPEN DAY on Friday the 11th September at 11am where anyone can pop around, say hi and choose what they want from the unclaimed items.

UP COUNTRY – Don’t panic, anyone up country who won, we will NOT put your stuff out. We will arrange bulk pick up from an area close to you or direct if you prefer.

JUST THE BEGINNING - Now the adventure and experiment REALLY begins.

• Will the ‘universe provide’?
• Will I stay in flow or end up a blithering mess at the bottom of a bottle of voddy like the old days haha.
• Will we end up begging at a soup kitchen or meeting people like you and having a blast?  Your guess is as good as mine. But I can’t wait to find out :-)

 - Bessie Blog- ---------


VIDEO BLOG – Coming Soon. An old mate has loaned us his very, very cool camera (Thanks Paul). So we are hoping to put together some really up-close n personal video blogs of our journey. Documenting the experiment, the people we meet (you) and the things we get up to in our quest.

HELP – Don’t forget if you guys know any weird, wild, wacky, wonderful or enlightening people, practices or places LET US KNOW. help@thelifechangeexperiment.com

THIS WEEK – Geoff’s Mum & Dad came down to look after BlueBelle while we went for a bit of a farewell night out in Sydney (Thanks Ma). (see pix) Was strange to be in clubs like the old days. We felt great though. Ready for the new chapter – I’m sure we will still get to have lots of fun, boozy and barnstorming nights. After all life is for the living, but at least now they won’t be to mask the underlying sense of un-fulfilment, boredom or social expectation!

BABYSITTER Thanks to the wonderful ladies who have offered to babysit. This week Paula and her cute son Ashton gave BlueBelle a lovely hour in the sunshine whilst we got some much needed work done & Jean from next door – Thanks for the break

Its Not As Easy As That

Just got a comment from one of our Blog regulars who is having a hard time. Their comment to my last post about, 'thinking out of the box', was

 "its not as easy as that'.

 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT COMMENT - So despite the fact im going cross-eyed from staring at emails for the last 16 hours i thought it important to address ASAP.

 You’re right! As long as you are around and doing the things you usually do, it’s REALLY hard to think out of the box – Why on earth do you think we made such a drastic move. To give our brains a chance to think different thoughts. So to expand your thinking try to :-

• Listen to different music
• Eat different foods
• Go different route to work
• Talk to different people
• Read different magazine
• Do different exercise 
• Drink different drinks

Act differently – Literally, be really nice or really nasty – ANYTHING to remind your brain it has more than one option!

Thinking out of the box is hard when your brain is put on autopilot everyday.

Naturally we like autopilot because it’s comfortable, safe, familiar, relatively efficient and no effort!

Unfortunately its also soul destroying, brain decaying, boring, unsatisfying and the greatest cause of depression in society today.

So its your choice - If you want more out of your brain, give it a different perspective – I have been ABSOLUTELY STUNNED at the alternate perceptions and solutions my brain has come up with since I got our of my routine. I have solved issues in 1 week I had not come near to fixing in 10 years.

 Hope this helps

Thinking like Einstien

Poor Bessie has been forced over the last week to endure copious Einstein documentaries due to it being ‘Einstein week on fox’. Fortunately she has plenty of emails to respond to thanks to all the amazing responses we have received.

Anyway in watching Einstein’s life I realised the HUGE and varied hurdles he had to overcome to become the ‘genius’ we all know and love.

What he proposed was so vastly different to, not only what the top minds of the day said, but what logic dictated. So from the very start he was batting being called nuts from both without and within.

I really stoped to wonder how he was able to take such gargantuan leaps in thinking as to propose, and later prove, things like time slowing with speed and matter being concentrated energy.

Thinking/ living outside the box is what this Life Change Experiment is all about. Allowing your mind the freedom to roam and explore ideas and possibilities it would usually rule out.

It’s only in these moments of non judgment of our thoughts that we find our own genius & flow.

Unfortunately most of the time we are so fearful of loosing control of the familiar, we never give our real creative an opportunity to flex its muscles.

To be honest, I find the thought of who I might be, if I totally let go my inner critic and stepped fully into flow, physically scary. Yes I admit it. Full flow scares the pants of me.

I mean what would be expected of me if the comfort zone police in my head suddenly took a day off from keeping me 'safe' with comments like, ‘ohh I cant do that’, ‘No one will listen to me’ and ‘who are you kidding, your nothing special’.

Frightening stuff! But none the less stuff I intend to find out!

Truth is our brains are the most powerful pieces of matter on earth (and likely the universe), Yet rather than treating them like the creative Ferraris they are we use them to potter around like a bicycles, too afraid to put our foot down in case others laugh at us.

Thank god, Einstein, Edison, Picasso, Newton, and all the other creative geniuses that have shaped our lives had no quarms about stepping on the gas!

A little at a time I intend to re wire my inner critic and see what sort of horse power I can get out of this ol gray matter.

Its not that any of us lack genius, Its simply we lack the courage to be wrong on the path to expressing our genius!

Give yourself permission to be wrong, screw up, make mistake, get miserable, feel hurt – Then let it go and get on with the job of living n learning with no regreats.