Self discipline is something we all need to learn from time to time, perhaps you have started your own business and you are wasting a lot of valuable time, you're going to have to learn some self discipline so that you can start to manage your time more effectively or perhaps you have just started a new job working from home, youre going to need to show a great deal of self discipline in order to keep yourself on task and away from distractions easily found at home.In this short, s...

Every time you purchase one of Shane's books to learn how to and to grow and change your own life, you will be changing the life of someone less fortunate than you. For just 99 cents, you can purchase ten bricks to help build schools in Kenya or supply 99 days worth of clean drinking water for a family. Shane will write 17 books and donate 100 percent of all proceeds to 17 seperate causes as part of the United Nation global goals initiative. 17 books, 17 causes.Shane's eighth book,...

For those of you unfamiliar with the analogy of the frog in the saucepan, let me fill you in. If you take a frog and place it into a saucepan of boiling water it will jump straight out. However, if you put the same frog in a lukewarm saucepan increasing the temperature slowly, its neurology does not notice the change and the frog remains in the pot until it boils to death.Basically, the analogy demonstrates that gradual changes happening over time make it difficult for us to notice...

Book One, from the 'WHAT DRIVES, MOTIVATES & INSPIRES US" series.Have you ever wondered how people like Richard Branson got so rich that they stopped worrying about making money, and started thinking about how to change the world? Or why theres people like Elon Musk who got to show his classroom bullies who was right, and started setting his sights on much higher goals like space travel?These people have managed to break free of the usual daily binds that the average joe wa...

When you see perfectionism in others and see the results of perfectionism, you would probably have a hard time believing that perfectionism could be holding so many people back. Truth is, perfectionism is holding many people back in a lot of ways. When you see a perfectly clean home, a perfect workplace report and a perfect garden you can't help but envy the perfectionist, we often think we are somehow flawed when we look at the outcomes of the perfectionist vs our own. Perfectionism takes...

When you take a permissive pattern and increase the shoulds by putting rules on it, you can actually start to lose the urge to do it. Especially if your unconscious mind feels that those rules are not 'on its side'.I call this the 'rule hack' and it works wonders for unfriending those pesky habits you've had a love/hate relationship with.The rule hack is often a method used by hypnotherapists and NLP practitioners to help clients quit smoking. The get the client to agree to...

By the time someone decides to come along and see a therapist, they often feel like they’ve been stuck going around in circles for quite some time. This book addresses and highlights the common reasons why people seek therapy feeling stuck in their lives.What happens more often than not is that the client kind of realises what the particular problem is. But they just can’t seem to get to the bottom of why they keep doing the problem. For example, a client may be able to articulate ...

Go out and ask a bunch of your friends whether or not they have a preference for Coke and Pepsi. Some people say they taste the same, but most people will say they can taste the difference. Ask your friends if they think the subtle meanings portrayed in each brands advertising has affected the way they feel about the drink. Inevitably they will say no. Inevitably, they will say that the only thing that affects the way they feel about the product is the way it tastes. Ask them what they thi...

The problem is that we crave fast food too much, it is much like an invisible magnetic force pulling you towards bad habits. Its not as though we are putting a lot of effort into eating junk foods, its just that we can't seem to pull ourselves away from. Sometimes we don't even realise we are doing it, we are just acting on autopilot. We know that its more of a psychological thing than it is an appetite thing. So here's a question.What if you can reprogram your brain to crave healt...

It would be nice to think that job positions are based on merit. But deep down I think we all know that this is not entirely true. The job market is not fair (even though, especially in the public service, put a lot of effort into pretending that it is). Its competitive. Its just that the rules of the competition are more obvious to some than they are to others.The only difference between the people who have worked their way up further than you, is that they know the rules better t...

It would be nice to think that job positions are based on merit. But deep down I think we all know that this is not entirely true. The job market is not fair (even though, especially in the public service, put a lot of effort into pretending that it is). Its competitive. Its just that the rules of the competition are more obvious to some than they are to others.The only difference between the people who have worked their way up further than you, is that they know the rules better t...

The problem is that we crave fast food too much, it is much like an invisible magnetic force pulling you towards bad habits. Its not as though we are putting a lot of effort into eating junk foods, its just that we can’t seem to pull ourselves away from. Sometimes we don’t even realise we are doing it, we are just acting on autopilot. We know that its more of a psychological thing than it is an appetite thing. So here’s a question.What if you can reprogram your brain to crave healt...