Geoff Blades

Geoff Blades

Die In The Arena

“I want to die on the field,” my client said.

“Like a quarterback unable to move in the end I want to know I gave it all.”

“When I exit this game of life,” looking at me with steely resolve he said, “Every ounce of me I leave here, in the field.”

He’s an intense fellow, but we all get where he’s coming from, don’t we?

Who Wants To Leave This Game…

Knowing we could have done more.

Given more.

Tried harder.

Stretched further.

Overcome more fears.

Unleashed our potential.

Obliterated those things that held us back.

In his words, “Become who I was destined to be.”

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I Could Never Be “Normal” Again

Normal in our world is having never trained your mind.

I’d rather be dead.

Seriously, this is heaven.

That Mind Is Hell

Constantly thinking.

70,000 mostly redundant, shit thoughts.

Addicted to distraction.

Fear, of basically everything.

Uppers to get started. Booze, pills, drugs to shut it down.

Worry, FOMO, anxiously picking up devices every 8 seconds.

Constantly looking to the future, so desperately hoping it’s not worse, maybe better.

Vomiting opinions, thinking they are our own, not just programmed by someone else.

Thinking how you feel is based on your life and anything other than how you’re using your body and mind.

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Search For Intelligent Life

A beautiful Nordic alien recently told me she was sent here in search of intelligent life.

“So far I’m yet to find it,” she said. 

“Ha, what do you mean?” 

“Well, I’ve been reading your news and watching your TV and it’s obvious there’s no intelligent species here.” 

Ouch

“Have you kept up with the Kardashians?” she asked.

“And your entertainment?” 

“What about it?” I asked.

Looking at me with her hypnotic blue eyes she asked, “What type of intelligent species entertains itself with murder and mayhem?”

“Your politicians? They are your leaders?” 

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A Warm Bath Of Limitless Thinking

Whenever I talk about negative thinking I need a good bath to wash it off.

You can never ignore this elephant dung in the room…

But you also never want to get stuck in it.

As I talk about in the track below, like cleaning out a wound it’s necessary to clear out limited thinking, yet limitless thinking is better and better.

Driving Limitless Thinking

It’s bizarre that in our world positive thinking is a “thing.”

Why amazing thinking isn’t the default in our brains and world is beyond us, yet we can choose.

For some people it’s easy to choose amazing, but for many of us it can take training.

Yet, because the brain basically cycles the same thoughts every day…

Once you get it thinking more limitless, it keeps driving more this way.

The Greatest Discovery

“The greatest discovery of my generation,” William James, who died in 1910, said, “is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

It’s a nice-sounding quote, but 100+ years later, how many of us are trained to actually live this way?

This is the greatest discovery of my life—

How you actually live it.

It’s not about knowing you can alter your attitude.

Or even choosing to do it…

Like getting in the best shape of your life at the gym, you want a training program to deeply condition yourself this way.

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Staying Sane In This Insane World

Another Shooting…

I no longer indulge it.

I don’t even know how to talk to people about it anymore.

Different shooting, all the same nonsense.

Another lunatic’s version of reality forced upon the rest of us.

Another media cycle, milking murder for the all the ratings it can get.

More politicians using it to push more of their agenda.

More Victims, More Blame

Who do we not blame?

Football fans hate on each other as much as Democrats and Republicans as much as this holy war that has raged for centuries.

One man killing a bunch of innocent people a microcosm of the game of hate our god-loving Churches and States—Islamic States, included—play on a grander scale.

Blame the gun laws. Blame mental health. Blame parenting. Any donkey we can pin it on.

Video games that taught him to shoot, and helped him direct his POV-style game. Social media that gives him what many teenage girls want, fame.

Our celebrities for acting out their nightly murder for entertainment.

A World Of Violence And Drama

The world is saner and safer than it has ever been.

Our lives are better than they’ve ever been.

But, we’re no happier. We feel no safer.

Decades ago kids were hiding under their desks from the threat of nuclear attack.

Today parents are afraid to let their kids walk to school.

We live in a world that perpetuates mayhem for reasons only those of us who investigate the truth of our society are unwilling to explain…

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I Laugh At Chamath The Destroyer Deeply Unhappy

A buddy forwarded me a link to this podcast with redeemed social-destroyer Chamath Palihapitiya.

Inside apparently he shares his deep wisdom on how people in Silicon Valley are deeply unhappy.

He suggested I listen.

I laughed. I never waste time on podcasts, and I only find it funny hearing more privileged folks are deeply unhappy.

Of course they are.

People Are Deeply Unhappy Everywhere…

There’s so few humans on the planet who don’t feel some sense of lack.

Many of us can pretend otherwise…

We can post a fake-smiling picture on Fakebook and claim it ain’t so, but it’s written all over our lives.

We gulp down our coffee just to get started. Kids and adults alike pop their pills to make it through the day. Booze and more drugs to take the edge off at night.

Uppers. Downers. Social. Porn. News. Online. Food. TV. Gaming.

Our lives are a menagerie of addiction and distraction.

Insecurity. Worry. Anxiety. Fear. Crap thinking. Constant one-upping.

This “normal” many of us define as “happy.”

I Did 

Even after a decade of searching for what I wanted in thousands of self-help books I would have told you I was happy.

Confused about life. Frustrated with my job.

Filling my head with news, fearful of where the world was headed. Worry. Insecurity. Constant thinking.

It wasn’t until this mission busted my mind and I truly, for the first time, felt deeply unhappy, I saw the light.

Looking up from the ocean floor I could see my old definition of “happy” was the waterline, but there is so much further we can soar.

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