This site is the website of motivational speaker Craig Harper. A constantly updated, one-stop information, inspiration, education and motivation station. Unlike many similar sites, it is a totally free resource for anyone who is serious about moving from mediocre to amazing in any area of their personal or professional life. With hundreds of articles covering a wide range of subject matter, great interviews with cool people and inspirational video posts, there's more than enough brain-food to keep you busy for hours. Okay, days!! Enjoy.
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Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig teaches that creating life-long change is more about the
dieter, than the actual diet. This book is perfect for people who have a
history of 'almost' getting in shape.
DVD
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notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. Many of us have a curious
ability to be able to get in shape for events (weddings, parties, reunions
and birthdays), if only we'd get in shape for life.
Craig Harper is Australia's leading
motivational speaker
and educator (according to Google Australia). He is a highly
sought-after corporate coach and is considered to be
a leader and pioneer in the areas of personal and
professional development.
Working with hundreds of
teams, companies and a wide variety of organisations
on numerous continents over the last twenty years
has given Craig a unique insight into, and
understanding of, human performance and all its
variables. Craig has an ability to educate, inspire,
challenge and make people laugh all at the same
time!
We all want to build a better version of us, don't we? That's why we come to (cyber) places like this; because we want to create the New and Improved... us. Do you ever close your eyes and picture what the new and improved you looks like, sounds like, thinks like, reacts like, communicates like, works like, lives like? In your mind's eye, do you have a clear image of your best life? Your best body? Best career? Best business? Best relationship? Best health? When you close your eyes and see the you, that you want to become, what is it that's different about future you? What's different about your best life compared with the one you're living right now? The sooner we start to make those things a reality inside our head, the sooner they will become a reality in our physical world. For the most part, external change is preceded by, or at the very least, accompanied by, internal change; a shift in our thinking, reasoning, processing, reacting, deciding.
Affirmations on the Mirror
It will come as no shock to my regular readers to learn that I've never really been the bloke who sticks the positive affirmations up on the mirror or recites the personal empowerment mantras every morning; "I am powerful, I am successful, I am a winner". Nope, not me. Nothing wrong with the practice of course... but it's just not me. Neither have I been the one to sit cross-legged and meditate on the edge of a cliff in a kaftan and I've never really been patient enough to spend an hour each day visualising peaceful, calm, happy, fulfilled, successful Craig. While I was never opposed to the whole affirmation, meditation, visualisation vibe, it was just never an area of personal growth that I gravitated towards or really explored.
Or so I thought.
I Have a Process?
The other day someone asked me how I practically turn my dreams, ideas and intentions into realities; what my process was. My process? Hmm, do I even have a process for transforming the theoretical into the practical; the thought into the thing? When I actually sat down to figure out how I have managed to turn my internal theories, ideas and dreams into external, physical, living, breathing realities in my three-dimensional world, I realised that in my own way I have actually been affirming, meditating and visualising for years; perhaps not in the way most people would expect, but I had been doing it nonetheless. Craig the visualiser... weird.
Craig the Meditation Dude... weirder.
Starting Early
Since I was young I have always had an ability to see myself doing something before it became a literal, practical reality in my physical world. Even as a little fat kid I was always dreaming, planning, thinking and creating new realities and outcomes in my head; kind of like visualisation. Okay, exactly like visualisation. And I don't just mean childish day-dreaming, I mean mentally picturing, planning and preparing for positive change. Even before I had any awareness or understanding of behavioural psychology or personal development, I was already creating a better version of me in my teenage head. Before I lost 30 kgs (66 lbs) and before I had been remotely fit, I had actually seen my athletic self thousands of times in my mind. The interesting thing was that the physical leaner, lighter me looked exactly like the theoreticalme I had seen in my head.
Living in Our Head
You've heard me say many times that we inhabit a physical three-dimensional world but we do most of our living in our head; our non-physical world. In many ways our internal world is more real than our external world because it affects us more; it determines what we do, say, think and create. To a large extent what we create in our head, will also be manifested in our physical world. If there's internal chaos (between our ears), then there will be external chaos in our physical world; our body, our job, our finances, our relationships.
The Truth. Kind of.
When people ask, I always tell them that I opened my first commercial Personal Training centre (the first one in Australia) in 1990. And that's true. Kind of. Truth as we understand it anyway. But my truth is that I actually opened my first centre in 1987, 1988 and 1989. You see, by the time I opened the physical business, Harper's (my company) had already been operating in my head for three years. By the time the physical doors opened, I knew exactly what every square inch of that place would look like; colors, equipment, furniture, layout, carpet, mirrors, sound system, TVs, offices, signage, change rooms, uniforms... all of it. That business had become so real in my head, that turning the theoretical into the practical was a relatively easy transition, even for the first-time business owner. I had lived in that place for so long that bringing it out of my head was a natural progression. By the time I trained my first client in that place, I was an old hand because I had trained hundreds of clients in my internal gym.
The Dream Becomes a Reality
For most of us, the visualisation journey starts with a thought, an idea or a dream. And when we take that thought, idea or dream, inject it with some excitement, enthusiasm and passion, and then wrap it up in some logic, strategy and planning, the visualisation process has begun. For some people, visualisation is merely picturing themselves at the finish line; where they want to be eventually. For me it has always been mentally going through the entire process from start to finish; doing it all in my head first. I visualise myself doing everything that I need to do, to make that dream a reality.
As Napoleon Hill said, "if you can conceive it, you can achieve it."
If you're struggling to create amazing results in your (physical) world, then perhaps you should create them in your head first... works for me.
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