Having a well rounded life takes discipline, practice and patience.  I feel that there are three areas contribute to having a great life and if you follow these, your sure to prosper. The three are, financial, physical, spiritual soundness and emotional stability.

Most people will excel in one area, but are weak in others and vice-versa. It’s finding a common ground that will determine the quality and peace in your life.

Financial Stability

Lets face it. Money does make the world go round.  It’s almost like water.  Without it you will die in one way or another. Well, without money, your not dead, but it’s very difficult to survive.

Whether you know it or not, there are spiritual laws about money.  In fact the bible talks about money more than anything else.  You know why? The guy upstairs knew that we would have challenges with it.

The word says, “give and it will be given unto you, shaken up and overflowing”. If your not a giver (tither), your going against one of the most powerful laws available to us. As you sow, so shall you reap.You get the point. Be a giver.

Physical Wellness

It’s pretty obvious when you look around that we have an obesity problem, especially in the US. How you look has a lot to do with how you feel about yourself. You cannot have a well rounded life if you don’t take care of your body.

I am in the gym at least 5 days a week doing everything from High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Spinning, Hot Yoga and Heavy Weight Work Outs. If you don’t take care of your body, it wont take care of you. Eat right, work out and get rest.

It’s funny, right around New Years the gym is packed for like 3 weeks.  Everyone has resolutions to lose weight and get fit. Those die out pretty quickly. Why? Make New Years habits, not resolutions.

Spiritual Soundness

Most lack in this area. I don’t care what religion you are and which God you pray to. You need to get in touch with your spiritual self. We have a body, we have a soul and we are a spirit. If you don’t believe in it, so be it. I am just telling you my take on spirituality.

You have to believe in something. Get in tune with your calling in life. I don’t think we were put here by accident and I believe that each of us has untapped capabilities that even if we are not tuned into our gifts and talents, they go wasted.

Emotional Stability

I heard once that the size of a man/woman can best be determined by the size of the things that makes him or her angry. I think there is a lot of truth to that. Self mastery and being able to control ones emotions will determine a lot about your life and the people that you attract into it. If your hot headed, synical or emotionally unstable, you will suffer in all other areas of your life.

Having a balanced, well rounded life will make the journey oh so much sweeter.

Growing up on the Island of Maui right on the ocean, I surfed just about every day.  Sometimes I would paddle out before school and catch a few early morning waves and as soon as I got off the bus I raced to grab my board to hit the water.

During my early teen years, it was very competative paddling out with surfers that had more experience.  There were rules to be followed in the Hawaiian waters if you didn’t want to get your lights punched out by a big hawaiian surfer.  It was all about positioning and timing.

If you dropped in on a wave, you had the right of way, so if someone dropped in behind you, they couldnt pass you on the wave until you pulled out.  I learned this the hard way an an early age and paid dearly for it. Yep, a board in my face unexpectadly.  I wiped out after dropping in on a “Moke” which is a big hawaiian, he wiped out and upon coming up, gasping for air, there was his board coming right down on my head.  Then came the “Moke”, pissed off and ready to kill me.  As I got older, I learned the way of the waters. Fast forward

Anyways, the web is not much different in a lot of aspects.  There is always going to be competition on the Internet as well as new people coming and going.  All of them trying to get the attention of all of the folks surfing the web.

When I first got started marketing online, I was so clueless.  Organic Search, PPC, SEO?  What the hell? There was a huge learning curve for me.  I knew how to type a word document, create an excel spread sheet, send an email and fill out a webform and that was the extent of it.  Pretty sad huh? Almost as sad as dropping into a 20 foot wave in 2 feet of water and losing your footing.

While some folks are playing with Paid search (PPC), others are crafting their art in the organic search arena.  That is where I play.  The competition is fierce and it is a battle to stay ahead of your most fierce competitors.

The ultimate goal is the get the attention of the end users on the search engines.  When someone does a search query for something on Google, I want to own the #1 spot on the page with my content.  I also want to have four or five other spots on that page.  It becomes quite complex fighting for these positions and you know what? I love it.

I do this using a few strategies and that is a whole different blog post.  I use Videos, Articles, Squidoo Lenses, Press Releases and a few other ninja tactics to get first page ranking.

Once you learn how to get first page rank, you can then build back links to that media to ensure that it remains highly ranked on the page.  There are other strategy’s to do this but once again, that’s like an e-book worth of information.

Until Next Time,

Some mornings I wake up and I dont want to go to the gym and I just want to sleep in.  Over the years, I have learned that if I compromise on one area in my life, I will do it in others so I force myself to do the things I dont want to do.

You see, that is the difference between someone who is going to achieve their goals and someone who just thinks about achieving their goals.  There have been times that I have rolled back over in the early AM.  I can never go back to sleep because I am thinking about what I am supposed to be doing.  I end up getting up and getting the job done.

I roll that over into my business.  There are many days and nights in which it would be easier to just watch TV or go out on the town.  I know, however, that if I dont do the deal every day, I will get complaisant.  That is not a place I ever want to be. I am either growing or dying and I always want to be growing.

I have noticed that people come up with all kinds of excuses as to why they are in the position they are in.  I dont buy any of them.  I know what it is like to struggle.  I also know what it is like to win.

You make the choice..

Making Today Count………..

I used to just randomly go through days and the days turned into weeks and the weeks to months and so on…. Just putting one foot after the other, enduring life.

I woke up one day saying to myself, “That’s no way to live.”  I made the decision to change and to make today count for something.  You see when you dont make your days count, they count for nothing and I didnt want to be the guy that counted for nothing.

Today, I live on a schedule.  I have a plan of attack on a daily basis.  I plan my work and work my plan.  This is what all successful people do.  Failing to have a plan is like trying to build a tower without a blueprint.

I enjoy feeling fullfilled each and every day because I know that I moved one step closer to my dreams and one step closer to my goals.

Won’t you make today count for something?

Josh Boxer

http://MacDaddymarketing.TV