Life Design Labs
Saturday July 23rd-> http://lifedesignlabs.eventbrite.com/
Sunday July 24th->http://lifedesignlab2.eventbrite.com/
Change Your Life The Minute You Decide To
You can change your life the minute you decide to.
My Birthday Celebration + My Gift To You
Today is my 30th birthday celebration and I’m taking the day off, relaxing, hanging out at Starbucks (venti caramel mocha frapachino), and then off to Barnes N Noble’s to spend my gift certificates on -that’s right - new books; whoooohoooo! And then my wife is taking me out to dinner tonight to romance me 
. It doesn’t get much better than this!
Grateful
I’m feeling so grateful today as I look at all the many blessings in my life. I’m healthy, despite my recent battle with kidney disease. I have a wonderful wife who loves me, a family that supports me, a roof over my head, and food in my cabinets. I don’t know about you but for me that’s success; that’s what being rich is all about.
I can remember eleven years ago being depressed, kicked out of my house, roaming the streets addicted to drugs; totally lost and full of hate and anger. It was during that time that the issues of life backed me into the corner of life and I finally found what I was searching for all along: Love. It was the love that I found in God that changed my life forever, and I am forever grateful for that experience. Many of us often hear that we must search for God and seek after Him, that we must go to church and strive for some kind of religious experience. My experience was totally opposite. God was in search for me and He is in search for you as well. Our responsibility is to let go and get out of the way, and stop resisting the unconditional love of God, the ultimate Creator and lover of your soul.
I’m especially grateful that in just a few more months I am going to be a father! It’s still very surreal to me right now, still very mystical. What will my son be like, what will he look like, what is his path going to be, and what part will I play in shaping that path? It blows my mind when I really think deeply about it. I will have the privilege and responsibility of creating an atmosphere of love and safety where my son will thrive and grow up to be the man he is created to be. What an honor! I pray for wisdom, patience, and the ability to love unconditionally, just as I am loved unconditionally and am constantly transformed because of that kind of love.
My Gift to YOU
So, for my birthday celebration I want to give you a gift. I am going to offer you a 30-minute life coaching jam sessions for $30. My jam sessions are usually $150 per session.
These sessions are very powerful; I’ve seen so many of my clients experience monumental breakthrough in their lives to the point where the whole trajectory of their life was changed! When we take the time to invest in our lives and start becoming intentional about living more authentically and true to who we were create to be, life transforming things will start taking shape for you, trust me.
If you want to experience the power of the coaching process in your life and experience what my jam sessions are all about, then this gift is ideal for you. I don’t normally lower my prices but for the next two days I will keep this offer on the table. On Saturday April 30th at 12 midnight this offer will no longer be available.
Here is how it will work. Very simple, send me an email letting me know that you’re interested in my birthday gift jam session, and I will contact you to set up a date and time for our session.
In your email please include:
1. Your name
2. Your phone number
3. And what you might want to work on during our jam session.
I really hope you take advantage of my gift to you. Don’t allow anything to hold you back from connecting to your true self, and living the life you were created to live. Allow me to come alongside of you on this journey.
Creating the Future,
Sal Vasquez
Living Intentionally + Connecting To Your Higher Calling
In this video I talk about what it means to live intentionally + connecting to your higher calling.
I want to encourage you to watch this video all the way through to the end. I hope it inspires you!
Leave a comment below and let me know what you think.
The Process Of Making Decisions
Your future is the sum total of your decisions.
Did you know that you base your decisions on three things:
- Your Past
- Your Belief System
- Your Values
In this video I explain the process of making wise decisions. Enjoy!
How can you now make better decisions? Leave a comment below.
Crave Destiny
Share a comment about where you're at on your journey, and what you would like to learn moving forward. I will turn any question into a video post.
F*** Word
What is one thing you got out of this video and are going to apply to your life? I would love to hear your thoughts!
Investing in Your Unique Future
http://www.vimeo.com/16445539In this video I talk about that fact that everyone has intrinsic desires they desperately want to connect to. Everyone is unique and special and has something to contribute to humanity. However, we get sucked into going through the motions in life. My question to you is, when are you going to invest in creating your unique future; the life that you were created to live?
Life Design Matrix: Exercises To Get You Started
In my last post I spoke about the importance of life design. To help you get jump-started, I created this design Matrix for you to go through. This is a similar process I bring some of my coaching clients through. I usually don’t share this with everyone, but I’m going to be the bestest and share my top-secret stuff with you. But you must promise me that you’ll at least go through one of these exercises. Seriously, if you take the time to work through some of this, I believe it will be a great foundation for you to build upon. So, grab a pen and paper, or open up a new word document, and spend some time going through the different sections of this matrix. There is no right or wrong way to do this; remember, it’s your life and you get to design it anyway you want.
Bonus: for the first two people who email me their notes I will give a free hour coaching session to help you fine tune the first draft of your life design plan.
Life Mission:
What is your mission in life?
Have you ever thought about this before?
If not here is a great opportunity to start brainstorm and designing. You have permission to create the life you want - no, wait - you actually have the responsibility to first yourself, and then to the world to be your most true and authentic self.
Try and connect deep down to what you truly want in life. It’s okay to focus on yourself for a moment. In order for you to really make a difference in the world you have to be clear about what you want and desire. Once you become clear about your deep desires and start actualizing them, you’ll be positioned to live the life of your dreams while making a positive difference in the world. There is no greater feeling, trust me!
Take some time to think through these questions. Come up with a life mission statement around your answers.
If you could accomplish anything in your life, what would it be?
What thoughts, goals, or aspirations do you find yourself constantly daydreaming about?
What are the things you feel a deep sense of responsibility towards?
My mission in life is______________________________
Life Purpose:
Mission and life purpose are basically the same thing, but it sometimes helps to think through and approach this stuff in multiple ways. So, another way to start designing your life is to ask yourself, what is my purpose in life?
Remember this that your purpose can change as you shift into different times and seasons in your life. As you grow and change your purpose leads you into different places.
Asking yourself powerful questions and then processing the answers by writing down what you think and feel is one of the best ways to go about designing your life.
There are many ways to discover your purpose. For this exercise I’m going to focus on three: discovering your passions, talents, and tapping into the spiritual part of who you are and drawing answers from that small voice that speaks to your heart when you’re quit long enough to hear it. I like to call this hearing from God.
Passions
What are the things you’re passionate about? Don’t be afraid to list them even if you think some of them are stupid. You were born with intrinsic passions; you have the permission to exploit them.
Talents
- What are your top three talents?
- What are three times throughout your life where you exceeded your expectations?
- If I asked three of your closest friends what you are great at, what would they tell me?
- What are some dominant themes and threads consistent throughout your life? For example, one of my clients has three themes that are consistent through his life; they are computers/electronics, instruments, and philosophy. We were able to start creating his life design plan around those three themes.
Hearing From God/ Your Higher Coach
I know this may be a different experience then you may be use to, you might be the kind of person that is more logical and don’t believe in this kind of stuff. Please try to suspend judgment and go through this next exercise, it has the potential to change your life. Spend some time in silence with yourself for a moment (this could be a scary exercise for some people). Ask God out loud the question, “what was I created for?” Close your eyes and listen for that small voice whispering to you about your purpose, about who you were created to be, about what you were created to do. Many people hear God differently. Some people hear an inner voice that sounds like their own. Others, like myself, see pictures, and others get flashes of insights that just feel right. There are many ways God speaks; He speaks according to who you are and how you would best be able to hear from Him. With a little bit of faith and some practice you will be able to gain great clarity from the practice of hearing from God.
Destiny
What is your destiny? This is the whole story, the painted picture, the completed work, your ultimate purpose and goal in life, the reason you were created.
During this process you’re going to reverse engineer your life. What do I mean by reverse engineer your life? Simple, you’re going to create with the end in mine. What is the end goal for you? Think about it, write it down, dream, imagine, and don’t hold back.
What do you feel you were ultimately created for?
What is the core of your existence?
How will your life be different once you reach this place? Be as specific as possible.
*Don’t worry if you’re not completely sure about all this stuff. It’s a process and takes some time to connect to.
These next exercises can be applied in a few different ways. They can continue to give you more clarity into your personal life and how you were created. Or you can use them to start defining a way to launch into your mission and purpose. But once again everyone is different. It’s about exploring and discovering who you were created to be and living from that place.
Innovation
So, now your mission/purpose and destiny are coming together.
Within your mission and destiny in life, what are your areas of uniqueness/innovation?
Another way of saying this is what is your niche? Everyone has an area of uniqueness, a niche just waiting to be uncovered and exploited.
Ask yourself, what is different about me than everyone else? Write everything that comes to your mind, think deep.
Knowing what sets you apart is important for when you start actualizing and implementing your life design plan in order to create your unique future. It’s also important for those looking to launch a business around their passions.
For example: One of my life missions is to influence the people around me to wholeness. My purpose in life is to lead. An area of uniqueness for me is in being an activator. I don’t just talk about what I want to do I do it. So when building my business model and thinking about how I would be able to make money doing what I love, I was able to take all this and come up with a plan. Of course the plan changes and there will be many tweaks along the way, but the best way to know what you should do is to just start and make the changes as you go along.
Values
Knowing what your values are is so important. Believe it or not, you base the majority of your decisions on your values. There are fear based values, which are the have-to’s and conscious base values, which are the want-to’s. Once you can become self aware of the have to’s and focus on the want to’s, you're on your way to creating something amazing.
Your values will define you and shape the way you live your life.
What are your values?
When you attach your goals to your values you are way more likely to succeed in accomplishing them!
If you want me to send you a free values assessment, shoot me an email.
Your Tribe
Where does your life mission, innovation, and values take you?
Who is the tribe/community you’re going to be engaging with and bringing value to?
Who are you going to share your life mission with and influence? In business terminology this would be your target market, but its much more then just a target market, it’s your community, the people you will influence, and the ones that will have an influence on you.
Also, this is where you will be able to start leveraging and monetizing your passions. More on that in another post.
For example, my tribe would be the people that want to discover their life purpose and make a living doing what they love. Your tribe could be a group of children on the other side of the world that need to learn a new skill. Your tribe could be people that enjoy your music, or those interested in business development - sky's the limit here.
You can either be leading a tribe or be a part of a tribe. If you haven’t already, go read Seth Godin’s book TRIBES, right now!
Once again the point is for you to be connecting to your mission and purpose in life while designing with the end in mind. Exploiting your uniqueness and living out of your values as you serve and influence your tribe.
Execution
After coming up with your life design plan its imperative that you practice radical execution.
Without execution all the work you do and ideas you have mean nothing.
