100 Days

Done and Done!!!

I made it 100 days on a strict Vegan diet, without eating anything produced from, or by an animal. I had no sweets, no candy, no soda, no alcohol, no refined foods, and no other chemicals/toxins. I engaged in a extremely intense workout program and compiled a vast array of wisdom packed quotes from 100 of the most important books ever written. It has been a very empowering experience.

At the beginning of this endeavor I thought 100 days seemed like a LONG time. Looking back now it seems very short. You can grow and accomplish a lot in 100 days, but what you could do with this kind of focus, and persistence, over years, and decades, would be amazing. I plan on doing just that, and this was a great starting point to get me focused on my higher priorities in life.

Over these past 100 days, I've really focused on what I truly want out of life. I merged my love of Photography with the starting of a new business. Although I had been practicing photography for years, I've finally decided to align my passion and create, A Frame Forward, and do what I love, to support my family, as opposed to trying to find the time to do what I love, when I wasn't 'working'. It is so much more inspiring, rewarding and it doesn't even feel like 'work'.

I rewarded myself with some Cossetta's Cheese Pizza and some French Silk Pie. It was awesome. I plan on taking about two weeks off and dabbling with treats and such, before embarking on a new 100 day journey. I'll be setting some new goals and developing some new daily rituals. If anyone wants to hop on board for the next round and could use some company in achieving their own goals, be in touch.

Here is the final rundown of my last 10 days... :-)

1. PhilosophersNotes: Again, this has been a hugely empowering part of my growth, focus, and determination over the past 100 days. With all my being, I highly suggest these awesome tools for life, for each and every person on this planet. Check them out please! PhilosophersNotes.

Here are the final 10 books (out of 100) that I covered over the final 10 days...

"Thresholds of the Mind" - Bill Harris
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Tony Robbins Summary" - Brian Johnson
"Trust your Vibes" - Sonia Choquette
"The Way of the Superior Man" - David Deida
"The Wheel of Time" - Carlos Castaneda
"You Can Heal your Life" - Louise Hay
"Your Erroneous Zones" - Wayne Dyer
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" - Stephen Covey
"The 80/20 Principle" - Richard Koch

Here are my favorite quotes from the last 10 days...

“The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”” – Stephen Covey

“You have enormous untapped power you’ll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second.” – William James

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?” – Tony Robbins


2. Jump Attack: I still have 2 more weeks left of the program and will report back upon completion. Still no dunking yet, but getting stronger and quicker with each workout.


Thanks for reading, caring and for being you. I hope this personal challenge of mine brought some inspiration your way. Here's to ongoing forward movement in the direction of our hopes, goals and dreams.

Sending heaps of love, inspiration, motivation, persistence, and determination...to you and yours!

:-)

Jackson



***Here are the rest, and final, awesome quotes from the 'last' ten days of PhilosophersNotes...

“It isn’t that change is painful; it’s our resistance to the process that creates the pain… End the resistance and the discomfort ends.” – Bill Harris

“Transformation doesn’t necessarily reward watchfulness. It does, however, reward daily practice.” - Bill Harris

“Problems fall away, not because they are “solved” or understood, but rather because they become irrelevant.” – Bill Harris

“Instead of trying to get rid of experiences that happened in the past, instead of trying to get rid of emotional ‘stuff’ supposedly buried inside you, all you really need to do is raise your threshold. Then, what used to derail you can’t do so anymore. Raising the threshold attacks the problem—sensitivity to stress—at the root, and bypasses the treatment of symptoms, the results of which are almost always temporary. Then the symptoms—depression, anxiety, fear, anger, substance abuse, self-sabotage, confusion, and many others—evaporate of their own accord.” – Bill Harris

“People with a high threshold for what they can handle remain happy, peaceful, and centered even when around difficult people or in difficult situations. Because raising your personal threshold for what happens treats the root cause, it offers the possibility for ending all dysfunction—and doing so permanently.” – Bill Harris

“When people realize, at least theoretically, that the chaos they fear is the prelude to positive change, it sometimes helps them to relax. When they’re able to look at the process as a continual cycle of death and rebirth, and remember that the cycle is painful only when they identify with what is dying, it often eases their distress.” - Bill Harris

“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is… The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.” – Dan Millman

“Not resisting what is does not mean that you cannot want to change what is, and the difference is one of attachment to the outcome. A person who is attached to the outcome suffers if he does not get the outcome he wants, whereas the happy, peaceful person prefers the outcome he wants but is not attached to it. If he gets a different outcome, he remains just as happy and peaceful as he was to begin with. His happiness comes from within, and does not depend on what goes on around him.” – Bill Harris

“Resilience… can be learned but it can’t be taught. Paradoxically, if you teach someone ‘the rules’ for being resilient, and they attempt to follow them, they cannot become resilient. Resilient people are not rule bound. Instead, they deal with each situation with a flexible approach that allows them to choose the most resourceful way to be or behave in that situation. They respond to the world based on the outcomes they want, rather than on whatever rules they were taught by parents, teachers, friends, the media, and the general culture.” – Bill Harris

“The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever does not believe himself always lies.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have enormous untapped power you’ll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second.” – William James

“‘This is my way; where is yours?’—Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way.’ For the way—that does not exist.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return… One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Who will you have to become to achieve all you want?” - Tony Robbins

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.” - Buddha

“You don’t get depressed, you do it!” - Tony Robbins

“The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don’t have problems, get on your knees and pray.” - Tony Robbins

“The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.” - Tony Robbins

“Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?” – Tony Robbins

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” - Jim Rohn

“It’s not ‘Can you?’ It’s ‘Will you? – Tony Robbins

“The Universe has a pulse and rhythm of its own, and it wants to carry you with it—so if you dance with Spirit, just remember to let it lead.” - Sonia Choquette

“Amazing things happen when you get enough sleep, eat properly, and take it easy. Your nerve endings relax, and your spirit, or the six-sensory part of you, rejuvenates and begins to shine light on your path. This is what happens when we say that a person shines or radiates; and it’s why we draw a lightbulb over a person’s head to demonstrate inspiration. There’s a marvelous French saying that describes this centered and solid spiritual state of awareness: Je me sens bien dans ma peau, or I feel good in my skin. We create a desirable state for all psychic systems by giving our body optimum care.” - Sonia Choquette

“Your heart pumps enough blood through your body every day to fill a railway tank car. It exerts enough energy every twenty-four hours to shovel twenty tons of coal onto a platform three feet high. It does this incredible amount of work for fifty, seventy, or maybe ninety years. How can it stand it? Dr. Walter B. Cannon, of the Harvard Medical School, explained it. He said ‘Most people have the idea that the heart is working all the time. As a matter of fact, there is a definite rest period after each contraction. When beating at a moderate rate of seventy pulses per minute, the heart is actually working only nine hours out of the twenty-four. In the aggregate its rest periods total a full fifteen hours per day.’” – Dale Carnegie

“Not only is being physically grounded a solid requirement for tuning in to your vibes, it’s also an instant antidote for obsession or worry. Whenever you find yourself overly concerned or unable to stop thinking about something, immediately go outside and walk; or better yet, run around the block to disrupt the toxic trance you’re in. I’ve never known anyone to find answers from thinking things to death, but I have known people who gained peaceful insights and grand solutions while strolling through the park.” - Sonia Choquette

“Remaining calm no matter what’s going on around you is an incredible challenge, but it will liberate your psychic sense and will probably add a few years to your life as well—after all, getting worked up about things only makes them worse. Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don’t have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.” - Sonia Choquette

“The best way to maintain a higher vibration is to make every thought and word you use or listen to as loving and nurturing as possible.” - Sonia Choquette

“Dwelling on the past is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to Spirit. The more we focus on or even glamorize what happened to us yesterday, especially how unfair or unpleasant it was, the more we guarantee that we’ll miss the subtle Divine Guidance being relayed to us at the moment.” - Sonia Choquette

“It’s really quite simple: If you want inspiration, think inspiring thoughts; if you want healing, think healing thoughts; if you want creativity, think creative thoughts; and if you want to live in a higher way, think higher thoughts.” - Sonia Choquette

“To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it comes to our problems and melodramas that we disconnect from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls—we withdraw from life instead of enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life.” - Sonia Choquette

“Timing is the Divine’s way of again reminding us that we co-create with the Universe—we aren’t doing it alone. We plant, water, and weed the seeds of creativity, but we don’t have the power to make them grow, let alone grow according to our schedule. How it all unfolds is up to God. God’s wisdom will fulfill our deepest intentions once we set them in motion. Our part is to create the perfect conditions for the Universe to flow through us—much like our job is to create the perfect conditions for the garden to grow—but that’s all we can do. God flows through us and develops our gardens according to his own timetable. And thank goodness for that, because God knows and grows better than we do.” - Sonia Choquette

“The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distraction and detours.” – David Deida

“Make your life an ongoing process of being who you are, at your deepest, most easeful levels of being. Everything other than this process is secondary.” – David Deida

“Own your fear, and lean just beyond it. In every aspect of your life. Starting now.” - David Deida

“Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.” – David Deida

“As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.”

“As you dissolve each layer and move toward the center, you will more and more be living from your deeper purposes, and then your deepest heart purpose, whatever it is, in every moment.”– David Deida

“Each purpose, each mission, is meant to be fully lived to the point where it becomes empty, boring, and useless. Then it should be discarded. This is a sign of growth, but you may mistake it for a sign of failure.” – David Deida

“Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.” – David Deida

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: ‘Does this path have a heart?’” – Carlos Castaneda

“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.” – Carlos Castaneda

“I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can… And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same… I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.” – Socrates

“Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm’s length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he’s about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, ‘I haven’t touched you yet.’” – Carlos Castaneda

“We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.” – Carlos Castaneda

“One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention. There is a total and complete exclusion of all obstacles from your consciousness. You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion.” – Deepak Chopra

“Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take respon-sibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.” – Carlos Castaneda

“Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.” - Louise Hay

“The most powerful way to do affirmations is to look in the mirror and say them out loud.” - Louise Hay

“If you don’t have the thought, you won’t have the feeling. And thoughts can be changed. Change the thought, and the feeling must go.” - Louise Hay

“If you want to clean a room thoroughly, you will pick up and examine everything in it. Some things you will look at with love, and you will dust them or polish them to give them new beauty. Some things you will see that need refinishing or repair, and you will make a note to do that. Some things will never serve you again, and it becomes time to let those things go. Old magazines and newspapers and dirty paper plates can be dropped into the wastebasket very calmly. There is no need to get angry in order to clean the room.

It is the same thing when we are cleaning our mental house. There is no need to get angry just because some of the beliefs in it are ready to be tossed out. Let them go as easily as you would scrape bits of food into the trash after a meal. Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences? If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go!” – Louise Hay

“If we were to take a three-year-old child and put him in the middle of the room, and you and I were to start yelling at the child, telling him how stupid he was, how he could never do anything right, how he should do this, and shouldn’t do that, and look at the mess he made; and maybe hit him a few times, we would end up with a frightened little child who sits docilely in the corner, or who tears up the place. The child will go one of these two ways, but we will never know the potential of that child.

If we take the same little child and tell him how much we love him, how much we care, that we love the way he looks and love how bright and clever he is, that we love the way he does things, and that it’s okay for him to make mistakes as he learns—and that we will always be there for him no matter what—then the potential that comes out of that child will blow your mind!

Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don’t work.” – Louise Hay

“When a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a ‘failure’?” – Louise Hay

“Impatience is just another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don’t give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.” – Louise Hay

“Often what we think of as the things ‘wrong’ with us are only our expressions of our individuality. This is our uniqueness and what is special about us. Nature never repeats itself. Since time began on this planet, there have never been two snowflakes alike or two raindrops the same. And every daisy is different from every other daisy. Our fingerprints are different, and we are different. We are meant to be different. When we can accept this, then there is not competition and no comparison. To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who we are.” – Louise Hay

“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.” – Louise Hay

“With death so endless a proposition and life so breathtakingly brief, ask yourself, ‘Should I avoid doing the things I really want to do?’ ‘Should I live my life as others want me to?” ‘Are things important to accumulate?’ ‘Is putting it off the way to live?’ Chances are your answers can be summed up in a few words: Live… Be You… Enjoy… Love.” – Wayne Dyer

“Using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have. It is a veritable religion of the self in which an individual determines his own behavior based upon his own conscience and the laws of his culture that work for him, rather than because someone has directed how he should behave. A careful look at Jesus Christ will reveal an extremely self-actualized person, an individual who preached self-reliance, and was not afraid to incur disapproval. Yet many of his followers have twisted his teachings into a catechism of fear and self-hate.” – Wayne Dyer

“Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.” – Wayne Dyer

“Away with the world’s opinion of you—it’s always unsettled and divided.” – Seneca

“There is nothing to worry about! Absolutely nothing. You can spend the rest of your life, beginning right now, worrying about the future, and no amount of your worry will change a thing. Remember that worry is defined as being immobilized in the present as a result of things that are going or not going to happen in the future. You must be careful not to confuse worrying with planning for the future. If you are planning, and the present-moment activity will contribute to a more effective future, then this is not worry. It is worry only when you are in any way immobilized now about a future happening.” – Wayne Dyer

“Recognize the preposterousness of worry. Ask yourself over and over, ‘Is there anything that will ever change as a result of my worrying about it?’” - Wayne Dyer

“Begin to view your present moments as times to live, rather than to obsess about the future. When you catch yourself worrying, ask yourself, ‘What am I avoiding now by using up this moment with worry?’ Then begin to attack whatever it is you’re avoiding. The best antidote to worry is action.” – Wayne Dyer

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Quit smoking… now! Begin your diet… this moment! Give up booze… this second! Put this book down and do one push-up as your beginning exercise project. That’s how you tackle problems… with action now! Do it! The only thing holding you back is you, and the neurotic choices you’ve made because you don’t believe you’re as strong as you really are. How simple… just do it!” – Wayne Dyer

“Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear… Jot that down in your success rule book right now. Action cures fear.” – David Schwartz

“Look hard at your life. Are you doing what you’d choose to be doing if you knew you had six months to live? If not, you’d better begin doing it because, relatively speaking, that’s all you have. Given the eternity of time, thirty years or six months make no difference. Your total lifetime is a mere speck. Delaying anything makes no sense.” – Wayne Dyer

“I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.” - Stephen Covey

“Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.” – Stephen Covey

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.” – Stephen Covey

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”” – Stephen Covey

“A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” – Stephen Covey

“Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.” – Stephen Covey

“20% of what we do leads to 80% of the results; but 80% of what we do leads to only 20%. We are wasting 80% of our time on low-value outcomes.” – Richard Koch

“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.” – Richard Koch

“For the individual, too, it is better to know a few things well, or preferably one thing exceptionally well, than it is to know many things superficially.” - Richard Koch

“It is important to focus on what you find easy. This is where most motivational writers go wrong. They assume you should try things that are difficult for you.” - Richard Koch

“A surprising number of people spend a lot of time with people they don’t like. This is a complete and utter waste of time. It’s not enjoyable, it’s tiring.” - Richard Koch

“For both personal and professional relationships, fewer and deeper is better than more and less deep.” - Richard Koch

“The action implications should be plain. Go for quality rather than quantity. Spend your time and emotional energy reinforcing and deepening the relationships that are most important.” – Richard Koch

“Self-actualizing people have these especially deep ties with rather few individuals. Their circle of friends is rather small. The ones that they love profoundly are few in number. Partly this is for the reason that being very close to someone in this self-actualizing style seems to require a good deal of time. Devotion is not a matter of a moment… One subject expressed it like this: ‘I haven’t got time for many friends. Nobody has, that is, if they are to be real friends.’” – Abraham Maslow

“What is the 20 percent of your time when you achieve 80 percent of your results? Do more of it! What is the 80 percent of your time when you achieve little? Do less of it!” - Richard Koch