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In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast, we discuss the topic of Beliefs: good Beliefs, bad Beliefs, and what to do about them. Beliefs are one of those subjects that has been beaten to death in the personal growth world. It seems like people can talk enough about beliefs to fill an entire section of the bookstore without ever actually saying anything useful, practical, and actionable about what a person can do to change the fact that they belief what they do the way they do. In this episode we’ll present a uniquely useful perspective on belief. If you like what you hear in this episode, be on the lookout for our up ongoing beliefs mastery master class: Beyond Belief, A Practical Guide To Believing

In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast, Melissa and I talk about one of our all-time favorite activities: stretching! The physical, mental, and emotional/experientially benefits of stretching have had a profoundly positive impact on both of our lives, and stretching our bodies is an integral part of our daily lives and an essential tool for improving What It Is Like To Be Us. For those of you who are interested in the resources we mention in this episode, here are some relevant links: Kit Laughlin’s YouTube Channel: https://m.youtube.com/user/KitLaughlin Kit Laughlin’s Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/kitlaughlin Kit Laughlin’s Website: https://stretchtherapy.net Gymnastic Bodies Stretch Series: https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/gb-courses/stretch-series/

In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast, Steve and Melissa talk about one of Steve’s all-time favorite things: David Allen’s personal productivity methodology “Getting Things Done.” This systematic approach to life and work has had a tremendous impact on Steve’s life, and both the philosophy behind it and its practical applications pair beautifully with the Thought Technologies he teaches in the Ever Better Life Course. If you’re looking for a way to make stress free productivity a part of your daily life, listen to this episode and consider incorporating the GTD methodology into your skill set!

This episode is all about Vitamin M:  Meditation! Meditation is such an essential aspect of both of our live's, and it continues to play a key role in both the development and implementation of Ever Better Thought Technology. On this episode, you'll hear our personal story of what life is like with sufficient doses of Vitamin M, what meditation does, as well as learn a few tips on how best to incorporate this powerful technology into the Creative Process that gives rise to What It Is Like To Be You.

Do you spend a lot of time comparing yourself to what you think other people have, what they do, or what you think their life is like? Do you find yourself comparing who you are to who you thought you would be "at this point in your life" or who you think you should be? Are you ruining What It Is Like To Be You by fantasizing about What You Imagine It Is Like To Be Them? ALL thoughts are creative, and all comparisons with others are thoughts. If they don't feel good, there is no reason to think them more than once.

Are there certain thoughts or certain subjects that reliably cause you to feel bad when you think about them? Have you ever felt like you were worrying for no reason but found yourself unable to stop because "What if I SHOULD be worried about this?" In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast you will learn a reliable method for knowing which thoughts are worth thinking and which are not. The method is amazingly simple, and although it does take some deliberate practice to fully master, soon you will be an expert of catching counterfeit thoughts and only accepting legitimate Mental Money in your cognitive account.  

Do you struggle with acceptance? Self-acceptance, acceptance of others, of your past, of certain people, situations, or circumstances that make up part of your present reality? Many people struggle to accept What Is because they mistakenly assume that accepting what is means that they are stuck with it. In this episode you will discover why acceptance is not a method of coping with what you don't like, and see how it is actually a powerful tool for creating exactly the kind of positive change you have been wanting. You will also lean an practical, incredibly effective 6-Step Process of deliberately practicing The Art of Acceptance in your daily life so you can accept what you don't like and MOVE ON to what you do.

Do you ever feel stuck, blocked, or stymied in your efforts to create What You Want in life? In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast we share with you a powerfully useful perspective on where this feeling of stuckness comes from and what you can do NOW to release it from your experience PERMANENTLY.

Your Thought is the Most Powerful Creative Force in The Universe. Assuming you believe that that is true, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to worry about creating what you don't want by thinking negative thoughts? Isn't that worry itself a perfect example of the very type of negative thinking that you are worried about? In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast, you will discover how what and how you think about your thought is the most important factor in determining the outcome of the most important creative force in your life: your thinking.

After a LONG break, the Ever Better Life Podcast is BACK to share with you the Top 5 Abundance Blockers and what you can do to LET THEM GO and allow All That You Consider to Be Good to flow into every area of your life experience. If you have never listened before, this is the PERFECT time to start because, for the first time ever, the lovely Melissa Sell has joined show! If you find this episode useful, please feel free to share it with your friends!   As always, thank you so much for listening!  

This probably isn't your mom's financial advice. It certainly isn't Dave Ramsey's. Actually, it's not really financial advice at all.  It's a new (and I believe much needed) Pattern-Level discussion of the elemental characteristics of MONEY. There's so much practical how-to financial advice out there, if that were really the solution to people's money problems wouldn't all those problems be solved by now? Maybe the problem isn't the money.  Maybe it isn't the market.  Maybe it isn't your industry or your business.   Maybe it's YOU. What if making a few switches in the way you think about money could allow you to attract it just as easily and in just as much abundance as you attract whatever it is you're getting in your life now? Listen now and learn how.

I'm always on the idea hunt for neat, concise, and ideally alliterative distinctions that will allow me to assess and optimize aspects of my internal (thought) and external (physical) behavior.   Work on the next Awareness challenge is already under way, and this time there's going to be an expanding emphasis on everyone's favorite topic: Behavior!   In the Ever Better lexicon, Behavior consists of What You Do, What You Don't Do, and How You Do/Don't Do Those Things.   Behavior is significant because it is the conduit through which your Focus and Feelings manifest themselves and find permanent(-ish) physical form in your External Reality.    The content of your Focus is always either some combination of Irrelevant, Unchangeable, and Negative (i.e. Mental Clutter) or Relevant, Changeable, and Positive.   Your Feelings and Internal Experiences are characterized by either Regret, Resistance, and Worry (Emotional Clutter) or Remembering, Responding, and Requesting.   Regret, Resistance, and Worry/Remembering, Res

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a good one.  Practice is making it easier and easier to accurately articulate the amount of personal power and life experience freedom you're capable of when you use even the basic foundational patterns of Ever Better Thought Technology in your daily life. In this podcast you'll learn four things with which you want to become extremely uncomfortable right away.  The more uncomfortable you can get with these things, the faster you'll create happiness and success in your life and the happier and more successful you'll be. We are creatures of comfort.  That's an inherent trait of human (as well as non-human) animals.  Rather than fighting with or denying this basic, natural, genetically programmed characteristic of ourselves, we can learn to use our capacity for awareness and conscious choice to DECIDE what we want to be comfortable and uncomfortable with so that our natural drives serve and work for rather than dominate and work against us.   Demand Better, Provide Better, Become B

Many of the problems that lead to pessimistic assessments of ourselves, the situations in which we find ourselves, and our ability to identify and create what we want in our lives are essentially information processing errors. If you tend to perceive what is in ways that cause you to focus on, worry about, and attempt to avoid what you don't want, you're going to feel bad, behave unresourcefully, and create undesirable outcomes in the areas of life that matter most to you no matter how hard to try to do the right things. The resourcefulness with which you perceive, interpret, and make meaning regarding what IS has everything to do with how efficient and effect you are at realizing and materializing what CAN BE. In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast you'll get a preview of how Ever Better Thought Technology provides you with a quantum upgrade to your mental operating system, giving you a systematic approach for taking your perception generation processes off of autopilot so they can be consciously ex

Learn what it means to be inspired (I mean have an actual, practical, operational definition of inspiration) and how to get that way. Learn how constantly elevating your rock bottom, the minimum standard of thinking, feeling and believing you’re willing to accept from yourself is the mastery key to Perpetual Improvement and automatic Self-Optimization.

Physical fitness metaphors can provide an excellent framework for understand and relating to the cognitive processes by which you generate your experience of reality.   Developing fitness in any endeavor is a multi-step process encompassing several components. In this episode of the Ever Better Life podcast, Dr. Steven Ravnstag discusses the four elements of gymnastics strength training and shows how these traits relate to "Mental Fitness". Success psychology is about more than mere "positive thinking".   How strong is your focus?  How flexible is it?  How's your mental endurance?  And what's "Mental Mobility"? Give your brain the workout it deserves and whip your mind into shape by listening to this podcast and putting the principles presented to work in your daily life!

In this podcast I fess up to the five major F-ups that have held me back in life.  Hear me admit to the 5 unresourceful patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that systematically kept me from creating what I wanted in the first quarter century of my life and find out how my loss can be your gain.  I also cover several additional patterns that I’ve identified and helped my clients clear up.  Whether you’re interesting in fixing what’s broken or optimizing what’s not, you want to know about these patterns!

What is "mental illness"?  Is there only one way to talk about it?   Are prevailing professional, societal, cultural assumptions about the subject accurate? Are they resourceful? In this episode of the Ever Better Life Podcast, Steven Ravnstag discusses his experience with this issue in his capacity as a people helper, and addresses what he believes are the two biggest issues contributing to the experiential phenomena generally classed as "mental illness".

On this episode Dr. Ravnstag discusses the details of creating a successful and fulfilling romantic relationship through 7 specific patterns. Recognizing these patterns and cultivating your own awareness in the context of your relationship will yield amazing results. 

Are you married to your perception of reality?  On this episode of the Ever Better Podcast Dr. Steven Ravnstag discusses the importance of Pattern Recognition and developing Perceptual Flexibility. When you are rigid in your view of the world it can be difficult to get along easily with others, especially in your closest relationships. When you let go of needing to be right and start increasing your flexibility you make it possible to see the best in yourself, your situation, and other people.   Check out more at EverBetterLife.com