Key Principles to a Full Contact Lifestyle (Pt 2. Kinda)

Let me quickly hit you with a few more key principles to leading a Full Contact Lifestyle. Think about these points, digest them, meditate on them. Don’t just get to know these ideas, you should own them. There’ll be more principles later, and I’ll explain the mechanics behind the principles at the appropriate time, but for now let’s do this…

• All really good things come EASY.

Stevie Wonder was tooling around with a new keyboard, 10 minutes later he’d written Superstitious. Awesome! Archimedes, slogged his guts for months working on a new theory but with no progress. One afternoon he was relaxing in the tub and “Eureka!”, laws of displacement were defined and physics takes a leap forward. Brilliant! Spencer Silver was working for 3M on a new super strong adhesive but instead developed a glue that stuck to anything and yet wouldn’t stick at all. By accident, he’d invented the Post-it note. Top notch!

The list goes on. The point is that at no time should the process of living Full Contact EVER feel like work. If it does, something is going wrong. Which brings me to…

• Know yourself to know what you REALLY want.

As I’ll recount soon, I wasted a lot of time in my life working towards things I didn’t really want using methods I didn’t honestly believe in. As a consequence I didn’t achieve any of those goals. What a waste of time.

Think of it this way: If you were a rhinoceros, it would be hopeless for you to go to tiger school to learn to be a tiger. You could NEVER be a tiger; it’s just not in your nature. And all the REAL tigers would beat you up for your lunch money in the playground. But you could very well become the best darned rhino you could if you just focus and put a little time in. It would come a hell of a lot more naturally to you, be more enjoyable, and as a result the successes would come a whole lot easier too.

• Stop being so damned reasonable!

I went fishing a while back. I’m not proud of it, but I learned my lesson. I wasn’t getting so much as a nibble, but a guy upstream of me seemed to be hauling in catch after catch so I decided to find out how he was getting such great results. As I got closer, however, I noticed he was catching a fish and measuring it. Nothing strange about that, I know, but the thing was he was throwing all the big fish back. All the big, juicy, tasty looking salmon and trout didn’t hold any interest to him for some reason. Yet he was keeping all the tiddlers! This was more than a little wierd to me, so I asked him what the deal was.
“I’m catching fish for my dinner.” He happily explained, casually tossing another prize specimen back into the clear waters. “So why are you discarding the big fish and keeping the small ones?” I asked. “Well,” He replied, “My pan at home is only 10 inches and those big ones just won’t fit!”

Is this something you do every day of your life? Limit your dreams to fit your poor expectations? Smother your aspirations in the warm cotton wool fluffiness of a comfort zone coffin? Throw away your REAL dreams and desires because they’re just too big (Whatever that means!) and you feel you couldn’t manage them? As you read this I want you to mentally, emotionally, and spiritually do yourself a favour right now – GET YOURSELF A BIGGER FRYING PAN!

• Stay HAPPY

This may seem really obvious and all too easy. It’s not. When I say “Stay happy” that’s exactly what I mean. I find it easy to be positive when things are going my way. If I got money in my pocket and food in my tummy, I’m a regular Wayne Newton. But it’s even more important to be positive when things aren’t going my way. In fact, it’s essential. Now sometimes it’s only natural to be a bit down, true enough. But these times are really, and I mean REALLY, few and far between in most people’s lives. In fact, if you’re reading this right now, I can safely say that you’re lucky enough to have the kind of lifestyle where opportunities to be truly sad are – happily – rare. But when the correct thing to do is be miserable, do it and get it out the way as soon as possible. Remember, a situation is never the problem. It’s how you view a situation that’s always the problem.

It’s my belief that life should be 100% fun for everyone. Using Full Contact Living, you can attract the life of your dreams and have a total blast while you do it. In the words of Richard Bandler, “You’re never too old for a happy childhood!”. Some people have trouble with this idea, but I’m inviting you now to surrender to it. Get happy, stay happy. It’s the way you were born to be.

• Have a “Why.”

I’m going to have a life size Millenium Falcon in my back garden. Correct in every detail, I’ll be able to sit in it and me and my friends will play in it when my wife’s out shopping. You’ll only be able to get into it via the drop down hydraulic ramp, (Of course), where the 3D chess table is, I’ll have a home cinema system and a screen behind a secret door in the wall so we can watch movies, and the fridge full of junk food will be behind a control panel. Why? Why does any grown man need a Millenium Falcon? And besides, that’s not the “Why” I mean.

I’m talking faith here.  I’m talking spirituality. You’ve got to have a reason for all this. God, The Universe, the Earth Mother, Bob Dobbs, David Icke, whoever. You need a “Why” for why you’re doing it. My Falcon is just for me, but just about everything else I’ll be manifesting will be benefiting my immediate reality and some will effect the world in general in a positive way. Personally, I’m a God man. You? That’s up to you. Faith in something isn’t essential, but I find it gives me a foundation. A platform from which to launch, and you may find something similar helpful. Here endeth the sermon.

• You deserve the best, and expect and accept ONLY the best

A little while ago I made the promise to myself to only do the things I want to do. If it makes me happy and nobody’s getting hurt, then it’s perfect. As a result I’m nicer to be around. It makes me happy to help people, so I do more of that now. My life is a better place to be. I’m in a better mood, and when I’m in a better mood I make better decisions, and more of what I want flows to me freely and easily. Now, I don’t talk to people I don’t want to talk to. I only mix with people who will make my life a better place, the same way I make theirs nicer too. I have taken control of my life and my destiny and I’m loving every minute of it.

You make your choices or by default someone will make them for you, and I guarantee you won’t like those choices! So choose what you want/don’t want and keep/discard whatever it is. Just make it the absolute best for you. If it’s good for you, it will be good for everyone else in your world. Which leads me to finally…

• If I ruled the world…

Guess what? You do. The world you live in is yours and yours alone. People only influence your world when you abdicate power. When you allow them to mess with your game. Sometimes, you simply need to allow a third party a certain amount of input into the goings on in your reality, but believe me it’s a lot sweeter when it’s on your terms. Personal sovereignty is something we’ll look at pretty soon. In the meantime…  go take the power back.

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