Travis Eneix

Of New Sites And Things

09 Sep

Travis | September 9th,2011 | Random | No Comments »

Hola!

Whew! I’ve been busy! I am sure you have too! Life in the modern information age is a whirlwind. Especially when you enter into the realm of information products.

That’s what I’ve been doing for the last couple of months. I have stared working doing web site design work for SimpleWealth clients. I’ve also launched a new site of my own about the book I have finally gotten off to my first readers. You can check that out if you’d like. It’s http://thetruthisyou.com/

It’s been a rock solid blast and I have learned a lot about the ins-and-outs of information marketing, presenting your expertise to the world, and packaging your successful results into systems for other people to use. It’s been a learning roller-coaster of awesome proportions!

Anyways, as things settle in more I plan on coming back to this blog as well as putting out my own offering for helping people get their own expertise out there in the information market place.

Stay tuned!

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Steam Up Your Brain

06 Jul

Travis | July 6th,2011 | Random | No Comments »

Here’s what I think: Beliefs are a liquid medium. (See what I did there?)

They are malleable, subject to change and revision, flow from one container to the next, and can get heated.

Our opinion and beliefs often become held as truths. When that happens, they freeze into solidity and can be very hard to move, shift, drop or change. Really though, they are all temporary. At some point, we did not have these beliefs, but they got poured into us by culture, family, friends, experience and zeta-rays from Beta Centauri. (Sorry, Betans, I believe someone had to say something…)

Stephen Covey, in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People relates a story illustrating how liquid, and changeable, our beliefs can be. He was on a New York subway train on a Sunday morning enjoying a quiet ride. All the passengers were keeping to themselves and resting peacefully. At a stop a man gets on with two boys in high gear. The man sits quietly down in a seat next to Covey and closes his eyes while his two boys run rampant around the car, making lots of noise and bothering people. Finally Covey decides to say something to the man, suggesting he should rein in his boys. The man replies slowly, “I suppose you’re right. We just came from the hospital where their mother died an hour ago. I don’t know what to think, I guess they don’t know how to handle it either.”

Instantly, Covey’s view on this man and the whole situation was radically shifted. His beliefs were re-arranged in an instant.

Here’s an awesome clip of Sean Stephenson relating how he helped shift a little girl’s beliefs in a way that forever altered her life:

Beliefs are not true. They are not facts. They are beliefs. They are opinions. They can be changed. I have found that the best way to help this happen is to heat up your beliefs with friction. Move them around. Bump them up against each other. Spin them on their heads and see what they look like from different angles. Ask questions about them. Invite questions about them. Entertain alternatives.

Doing that, can keep your belief system (your BS) mobile, fluid and quickly adaptable to whatever reality may deliver to you.

So, how do you keep your beliefs moving? I’d love to know! Please leave a comment below.

Cheers!

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Analysis is Not Action

15 Jun

Travis | June 15th,2011 | Random | No Comments »

Howdy! Hope the day is treating you well. Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

I’ve been on a jag lately of studying what successful people do in various areas that are of interest to me. I’ve slogged through a bunch of books, hours upon hours of videos, and reams of status updates. In doing that, I’ve come face to face with one of my own major stumbling blocks.

You know the one I mean: Paralysis by analysis.

One of the most common themes that gets repeated by all the motivational speakers, business gurus, success coaches and life educators is this -

Get into action!

Do something. Anything!

It almost does not matter what the action is as long as you follow three simple steps.

Take action
Check your results
Refine your action

As near as I can tell that is the golden path to abundance in whatever realm of life you’d like to improve.

That is what worked for me for weight loss. It’s also what worked for getting to the level of martial arts skill I enjoy.

It’s also what got me to finish the book I have been meaning to write for 4 years and am near to releasing in a big way.

Now, I am not silly enough to think there is only one solution in life. So, what have you found to be your biggest challenges in life, and how have you gone about facing them? What’s worked? What hasn’t? I’d love to know. Leave me a comment!

Get into action!

Cheers!

PS – I am working on a series on how to blog. All the tricks and tips I have found along the way that help me produce and keep me in line with my authenticity. I’d like to hear if you have tried blogging and what you found to be the major roadblocks. I’d also like to know whether a text or video blog would be most useful. Please take a moment to leave a comment. I’d really appreciate it!

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Looking versus Looking

10 Jun

Travis | June 10th,2011 | Random | No Comments »

More specifically, active looking versus passive looking. We can use these two basic modes to differentiate how we are looking at a given occurrence and make sure that mode of looking matches up with our goals of the moment. By looking I mean in the more broad sens of paying attention.

Let me first say that passive looking is awesome! I love zoning out to a movie, gazing up at a deep blue sky, getting lost in the trees, staring at my toes (I do that a lot), or watching the people passing by. Sometimes it is a great thing to simply let the mind drift amongst the incoming signals.

However, there are some occasions where passive looking does not quite cut the mustard. A few examples:

Driving (Look out pedestrians!)
Performing surgery (Wait, which kidney was I supposed to yank?)
Listening to a loved one (Mmmm, hmmm. Yup. Great dear. Uh-huh….)
Chopping carrots (Youch!)

You get the idea.

Active looking is also a very good idea when we want to learn something, and truly absorb it. This can come in several modes. Here are a few:

Investigating. Here is where we are trying to discern what is really occurring, or has occurred in a confusing or obfuscated situation.
Observing. This is the mode we go into when we want to figure out how something is being done or accomplished.
Learning. A great head space to be in for taking in material in a way where we can modify future behavior.
Memorizing. Awesome for all those little things like social security numbers, your boy friend’s digits, or your mom’s birthday (August 15th, yo!)

At any given moment our looking can be in an active or passive mode, and it’s not a bad idea to check in once in a while to see the type of looking we are employing. Especially when we want to be in active looking mode, like when reading a blog post by a cool guy who give out lots of keen little tips and tricks.

Peace!

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Page Flow Journaling, FTW!

01 Jun

Travis | June 1st,2011 | Random | No Comments »

Hola! I hope this finds you well! I wanted to talk to you today about journaling. Let me first say that I loooooove journaling! I think it is an incredibly empowering, effective and engaging form of self-reflection and learning. I have journaled, off and on, for the last decade.

On because it’s so very useful!

Off because I had a major roadblock with the process. My roadblock had to do with all the different things I want to accomplish with journaling, all the ways I have heard and learned to do it effectively, and the lack of a good way to section my journals.

You see, I have several uses I want to put my journals to (currently):

Keeping a dairy
Making a daily gratitude list
Keeping a daily list of 3 Good Things
Brainstorming
Keeping study notes
Holding course assignments for whatever program I am going through at the time

The trouble is, how do I keep all the sections straight? My first solution? A different journal for each purpose!

Fail!

Not only is this a crimp on the pocketbook, but if you are like me and you get pulled from one cool subject to the next quickly, you don’t want to be lugging around 6 different journals as you adventure about the world. Also, what happens if you make an entry in the wrong one? And, who wants to keep this stack at your bedside?

My next brilliant solution was to use post-it notes to delineate the various sections, so that I would be easily able to flip back and forth.

Epic Fail!

This thing ended up sinking a third of the time hunting through the tome for a particular thread, a third of the time in trying to make sure I maintained the design well, and the last third giving up on journaling!

So, what’s the solution? Ta-da!

Page flow!

(I came up with that name. The idea, however, was seeded from some cool MoleSkine hack articles I read a while back that recently jelled for me.)

In order to implement this you need to take a couple of steps.

1 – Get a blank journal.

2 – Number the pages

Now, when your writing in the journal you can reference what page your last entry was on for a particular subject, as well as the next:

You can also reference the page where the last entry was on the topic and show that the topic continues on the next page:

There you have it. Now whenever you want to read multiple sections of a subject you can just follow the page prompts.

The only thing I would add is an index. Some hackers suggest a table of contents up front in the journal, a few pages you leave blank and fill in as you start subjects in the journal. I don’t like that method because a table of contents feels like it has to be in order. Of course, an index should be in alphabetical order, but violating that convention feels less egregious to me. YMMV.

I hope you got something out of this piece. Keep up the journaling! It’s good for you!

Cheers!

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