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Ultimate Days

How many of us are living Ultimate?

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Why live any other way?

Are your days Ultimate?

How many of us wake up feeling how we want, bouncing out of bed excited for our days?

Or is it more normal to wake to a blaring alarm, wanting to hit snooze, probably hitting snooze…

To eventually sit yourself up enough to grab that phone you’ve so desperately missed cradling throughout the night.

Check email.

Maybe check other news or social.

And get your day started exactly how most of us say we don’t want—

Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, fearful, stressed, worried…

Thinking about all those things happening in the world you can’t control. Everything you must do for the day.

And they’re off!

Like a thoroughbred bolting out of the starting gates halfway down the track, there’s no catching it now.

And our brains are the same way.

Once we start our day thinking and feeling that way, how do we expect it to continue?

What happens next?

A client would check his email before his shower so on good email days he could feel relieved, and on bad ones he could stand there worrying, ruining that precious time with his wife and kids.

Sound familiar?

How does the rest of the day play out this way?

Massive cup of caffeine to get yourself jacked up for the day, and to keep that anxiety machine called a brain racing full steam.

Some wild ups and downs depending on what the world is stimulating in you.

Email. Boss. Reports. Clients. News.

All of us are on the roller coaster day if we choose to live this way.

Getting off at the end, shaken up we need more than a tonic to take the edge off.

Couple drinks. Glass of wine. That’s normal.

Maybe six, a bottle. Pretty normal too.

Perhaps pop some pills to get to sleep, maybe pop some more to get going in the a.m…

Are these our Ultimate Days?

Is this what our lives are destined to be? How many of us—

Feel our best?
Or do we have all sorts of unwanted feelings like stress, worry, anxiety, fear, overwhelm, depression, addiction, etc.?

Think our best?
Or do we near constantly think about stuff that creates those so-so at best feelings?

Are taking our ultimate actions?
How many of us are powering through our days, in our peak performance states, focused on what most matters driving our best actions and results?

Living our Ultimate Days?
If each day is a snapshot of our life, how many of us are living Ultimate? Being Ultimate?

What are your Ultimate Days?

What does it mean to live Ultimate?

I’m not talking about a special day like your wedding day or the day you’re a billionaire on your yacht.

I’m talking about no matter what day it is, how do you make it Ultimate?

On your Ultimate Days how are you thinking and feeling?

What actions are you taking?

Who are you being?

Really, what do your absolute best days look like? Feel like?

Imagine you could live this way every day?

You can think and feel exactly how you want, and just be absorbed in loving your day?

This is the point of the System For Ultimate Days.

We aren’t boats but we are sailing!

This brain of ours is set up to believe that how we think and feel is dependent on what is happening in our day.

Some days are “good.”

Others not so good.

And like a flag blowing in the wind this dictates the quality of your day.

No boat in a rough sea thinks to itself, this has been a rough day.

The crew might, but to the boat, it just is.

Rough or calm, so-so or gorgeous, the boat is, the sea is. And the boat is just getting on with its day.

Now, of course you and me are not boats, or at least I doubt you are a boat!

But we are vessels making our way through our days.

With our feeling bodies and thinking minds adding the commentary that create the experience of our day.

And here’s the thing…

No matter the day, we get to choose how we think and feel!

Living at your PEAK.

So much in life we are striving to get some thing or some there, believing that when we do we’ll feel, what?

Amazing? Fantastic? Happy? Content? Awesome? Fulfilled? A winner?

Whatever you call it, this is Ultimate!

The System for Ultimate Days is about living your peak experience now.

Delivering your peak performance, living in your peak happiness.

Not because some thing showed up or happened, or because it’s a special day, but because you’re choosing to make it e-special-ly Ultimate.

By training your Ultimate Days.

Why I built this for myself

How many of us get what we want to discover…

For a while we feel satisfied, satiated, perhaps ecstatic, but then, soon enough, our brains start thinking about what we now need next?

New car doesn’t smell how it did. New iPhone not as cool as it was.

That wedding day we so imagined for decades doesn’t feel the same a decade after.

Most our lives we’re focused on Getting There, only to discover we now crave another there.

10+ years into this work my greatest discovery

Came along with my greatest pain!

The hardest time in my life, having left Wall Street to do this work for other people, should have been the most amazing time.

For a decade researching my two questions—What do you want? How do you get it?

I had it. I was doing what I wanted. The work I absolutely love.

Living the life I had dreamed.

Yet I didn’t feel it.

In fact, I felt far from it.

Having taken on a massive goal that was way too hard for me I was suffering emotions I’d never experienced, even in a career on Wall Street.

Massive fear. Uncertainty. What some might call anxiety, overwhelm, spiraling down into depression.

Yet with this package of blah came my greatest gift…

I learned what it means to be happy!

I remember the night.

I’d been sinking down, but now like laying at the bottom of the ocean looking up I could see.

All those years researching these topics I would have said I was happy, but now I could see the waterline was my old definition of happy.

That was the normal way of being—

Constantly thinking, so desperately striving to get some thing, some there.

Caffeine to get the machine started, drinking, drugs, just to cap off the week.

Wound up like a steel ball barreling through the world to get what I want.

Yet now I had it…

Now living the life I truly wanted my brain still believed I had to achieve these massive goals to feel, what?

Amazing? Happy? Like I’d made it? A winner? Safe from fear?

Whatever… I was now seeing through it clearly.

And beyond that waterline.

That old level I would have called happiness…

I could see all the way to the sky.

To that radiance shining down.

And I knew. I just knew…

In this moment there is nothing you need to change.

Nothing you need to get.

Nowhere you need to achieve.

That right here in this moment you can smell the sunshine.

You can train yourself to experience your ultimate life right here right now.

I just didn’t know how!

I’d read all the books, thousands of them.

New age self-help. Old school. Psychology. Happiness. Neuroscience. Whatever.

Written thousands of pages of ideas.

Plus thousands of pages of the book I was writing.

Yet there was something big I was missing.

I was highly skilled at time management. Execution. Getting things done, etc.

I’d dabbled with meditating. Had played around with other mental practices.

But what I’d been missing was…

It’s not what you know, it’s how you use it.

I could see that I had learned a lot, but frankly, I’d not taken enough of that learning and practiced it.

See, it’s one thing to learn about say being grateful or being fulfilled or optimistic, thinking positive and so on.

It all sounds good.

We can say it to other people. Post it on a little status update.

But that’s very different to be training yourself living it.

Feeling it.

Being it.

And even though I could now see this clearly, it would still take me some 8 years to really be able to live it.

I tricked myself into it!

When I first started thinking about all this it was ONLY to get unstuck in my work.

Stuck feeling bad it’s impossible to write about doing what you want!

So I reasoned I needed to feel amazing. so I could do my work, so I could achieve my goals…

So I could feel amazing!

And in “forcing” myself to train feeling amazing, so I could do my work, so I could achieve my goals, so I could feel amazing…

I realized, ha, actually, that’s the lie.

That’s the discovery.

I tricked myself into learning you can feel amazing at will!

So instead of thinking you need to feel your best to take your best actions to get some thing or some there to feel Ultimate…

You’re starting here, feeling Ultimate now.

And it was through this type of thinking and tens of thousands of hours of research and development.

Building thousands of strategies and tools to master this.

That over nearly 10 years I built this System for Ultimate Days.

So you can live Ultimate Days too!

How many of your days are Ultimate?

Where you’re on top of the world? Walking on sunshine? Waking up bouncing into your day? Going to bed at night feeling like hells yeah I’d love to do that again?

You might already live this way, but too few people I’ve met do.

What about how you think?

How focused is your mind? How much does it jump around from one thing to another? Constantly seeking distraction? Brain candy? Anything that pulls you away from being focused on what matters most in your day?

And, how do you feel?

Anxious, fearful, angry, sad, and the types of emotions many of us live in this most amazing time for humanity.

Or do you feel how you want to feel? Be how you want to be?

Thinking Ultimate. Feeling Ultimate.

Tearing into those things that matter most, taking Ultimate actions, living your Ultimate Day?

You might already be excellent at this, and after this program you’ll be even better at—

Feeling your Ultimate.
How do you want to feel every day? How do you feel at your best? How committed are you training feeling this now?

Thinking your Ultimate.
How are you thinking at your best? What thoughts are gone? What thoughts are you constantly seeding and cultivating?

Taking your Ultimate actions.
No matter where you have been stuck in your mind and actions, how are you on fire? Crushing it? Getting it done? And every other metaphor for taking your Ultimate actions?

Living your Ultimate Days!
Who are you being? Why wouldn’t you want to be living this Ultimate every day?