Geoff Blades

Ultimate Days Masterclass

Even Princesses Unfulfilled

Ultimate DaysA girl can’t dream anymore.

How many young girls dream to be a princess?

To be swept off her feet by a ginger prince charming?

Only to discover as Meghan Markle has…

Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

I’d say she’s looked pretty unhappy since she woke from the first kiss.

No surprise; his Mum was too.

Like Cinderella, there’s lots of baggage that comes with putting on that slipper.

Today not even a princess can fly private without the social justice warriors slaying you.

Your royal family out-PC’ing you flying discount coach.

No princess dreams of flying in the back of the bus, do they?

Sadly it seems, not even reaching the peak of human society is all it’s cracked up to be.

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This Holy Experience

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Our lives are full of ups and downs, aren’t they?

Sometimes things feel as good as they can be.

Other times, well, life can feel real hard, can’t it?

As the Buddha put it, life is suffering.

These bodies and minds we’re born into, deteriorate.

Respond to every drop, curve our roller coaster world goes into.

Yet tossed around on the surface of the ocean, we can still remember the calm deep that lays beneath.

Alive And Breathing

In Parabola, Tool sing—

Twirling round with this familiar parable

Spinning, weaving round each new experience

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing

The chance to be alive and breathing

Point being…

No matter what life tosses at us, we have this one chance to experience each moment.

And depending on your beliefs, something far deeper beyond.

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Make Every Second Count

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We often talk about living our greatest life.

But what does this even mean?

When I get here. When I get there. When I get it done.

Looking forward. Looking back.

It’s all too far in the future.

Your greatest life is right here.

Right Now

Minutes. Hours. Days. Weeks. Months. Years.

Are too long.

Living your most amazing life you live inside the seconds.

Every second is your life.

Why wouldn’t you want to make every second count?

This life of ours can never be lived then.

The only moment you can be living your most amazing life is now.

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When You Must Smash It

“I must smash it,” he said.

“Now is when it really counts.”

For months we’ve been working towards these meetings.

Either he smashes it out of the park.

Or missed opportunity.

On top performance, there’s no in between.

No Kindof Top Performance

You either show up your best.

Or less than.

Most days for most people it doesn’t matter.

Unlike a pro athlete, no-one’s judging your every move.

Livelihood doesn’t hinge on top performance.

But some days it does.

Where anything less than your best is an F.

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Why So Serious?

Really, why do we take our lives so seriously?

Of course we’ve got bills to pay.

And kids to raise.

And all those responsibilities at work and in our lives.

But why for so many of us does it all seem so hard?

Why Can’t It Be More Like Play?

You know that quote about all the world’s a stage…

I interpret it to mean it’s a play.

Like a lucid dream we’re directing this life on our own stage.

Here to play.

Believe me, for many years, well, basically, all but this one…

I couldn’t live this way.

I was king of…

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Get More Energy

How many of us would like more energy?

With more energy, what more might be possible for you?

How much more might you get done?

Better might you feel?

What’s more important to living your ultimate life?

Life Is Energy

No energy…

No life.

Yet how we build and consume energy each day is still considered a mystery…

What’s the right amount of sleep?

How do you best fuel and hydrate the body?

What ways do you build and deplete energy?

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Wake Up. Get Up

That’s the second step in the Ultimate Days System.

It’s real leading edge, isn’t it?

Life-saving…

A Game Of Seconds

I mock myself, but I’m also being semi-semi-serious.

Wake up. Get up.

Is a real basic tool for getting your day started right.

Yet many of us also know how hard it can be, right?

Laying there hitting snooze.

Thinking about all the things you’ve got to do today.

Claws reaching for that device we cradle at night.

Those precious few seconds, those few bad moves, our day is already shot.

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“Why Don’t I Feel I’ve Made It?”

I see it time and time again.

No matter what success we achieve it’s hard to feel like we’ve made it.

There’s Always Something

We are yet to do.

Or make happen.

A problem that first needs to be resolved.

We might be like Atlas having hoisted the world on our shoulders.

But maybe we shrugged a little on the way up.

Still not good enough.

When I Get Rid Of The Shrug…

Then I’ll be happy.

When we’re no longer bothered by this.

Worried about that.

Concerned for what else might happen.

There’s too often something that stands in our way.

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Another Glorious Fakebook Birthday

My Fakebook birthday is always a nice surprise.

It’s like some of us men on our anniversary.

We completely forget until we wake up to the well in that case less pleasant surprise.

Just Like Any Other Day

I’m getting on with my day.

Making it ultimate.

And then it starts…

With a text message, “Happy birthday!”

Then I remember, ha, of course it’s my Fakebook birthday.

I punch the air.

Celebrate

After all these years you’d think I might remember my Fakebook birthday.

Maybe even do something about it, like change it.

But I let it go on.

As I wrote about on my last Fakebook birthday I gave up telling people, “No it’s just my Fakebook birthday.”

Birthday wishes bring so much joy to people.

And of course I love people celebrating every day.

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This Dying Hollywood Titan Tells You To Live Now

You spend your life driving success.

Are a massive winner in Hollywood.

Live in a 13,000 square foot mansion in Bel Air.

You end up living your final days forgetting your life in a 500 square foot bedroom in a nursing home.

Terry Semel’s ending might not be yours or mine, but we can be sure…

We’re Driving To A Dead End

No matter how you exit this world, assume it will be a worse day than this one.

If you go fast, well, you’ll never know when that is.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

And if you go slow, no matter how you exit, your body and mind likely go first.

You can’t live your life like you’ll get hit by a bus today, but you also can’t live like you won’t.

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Live. Die. Repeat

Did you see this movie with Tom Cruise?

It’s an interesting take on the alien invasion story.

And a powerful metaphor for living our ultimate days.

Long Story Short

Alien invaders are wiping out the human race.

Tom Cruise, playing a poor soldier, blows himself up, taking an alien down with him.

But then he wakes up again.

It seems blowing himself up with the alien “infected” him with the ability to reset time.

Each time he dies he starts again the same day.

Get It Right This Time

Each time he comes back to life he gets to do it better.

To train more.

Develop more knowledge.

Become more skilled.

To end the alien threat first before it again ends him.

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Yes! Bad Focus Is Our Phones Fault

This silly article blames our phones for ruining our lives.

Obviously, the way many of us use our devices is busted but it’s unfair to blame our poor phones.

They’re just doing their job.

Obviously We Have Focus Problems

Walk down the street it’s obvious.

Watch so-called friends / lovers in a restaurant on their devices, it’s obvious.

Obviously us adults are attached to our phones like a terrorist to an IED.

Kids are obviously raised on the distraction they provide.

Obviously they make our lives better in many ways.

Obviously, they waste our lives in many others.

Less Obvious: Stop Blaming

We blame guns for killing people.

Food for our ever growing waistlines.

Distractions on our lack of focus.

Near everything in the world for our lack of satisfaction.

But the only ones to blame are…

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The Best Mother’s Day Gift…

Is an Ultimate Day.

The point of Ultimate Days is that you can celebrate every day, yet it’s even better on these special days.

Your ultimate day doesn’t have to be your wedding day.

Or the day you won the lottery.

Every day you can party like it’s your birthday when you’re living Ultimate Days.

Make Mother’s Day Ultimate, Again

Mother’s Day is a perfect Ultimate Day.

Being an ultimate mother.

Being ultimate for your mother.

Giving her the gift of being ultimate for her ultimate Mother’s Day.

Here’s the full intro track from the Ultimate Days Masterclass:

Are You Living Ultimate Days?

Yes!

Now, we’re getting crazy… good.

Here we’re not just focused on living your ultimate life but…

Are You Living Your Ultimate Day?

Are you thinking your best?

Feeling your best?

Absorbed in your best actions?

Is today pretty good or…

Are You Living Your Ultimate Day?

If not, when do you plan on living it?

Next year?

When you reach that goal?

Get that thing?

Feel like you’ve finally, what…

Made it?

The only time we ever experience is now.

Period.

Full stop.

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