#BookNotes no.1 — The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard

Every week I will be reading a new book and every week I will post a review. It’s accountability & personal development in one. Win-win.

Here are my ‘personal’ insights…

My 3 Biggest Learnings:
1. Personal Freedom is an internal job.
2. Fear is just bad management of our mind. Unless you are physically threatened.
3. The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect and contribute to the world in a meaningful way.

Anything that Brendon creates I’m hooked. His energy, ideas and beliefs are always connected to my own desires in life. Marketing genius, yes. Genuine integrity, yes. So I had no hesitation with buying this book and any future books! I’m sure that are many, many other fans that feel the same way ☺

I don’t know. He has something that I have always been intrigued about and didn’t actually think was attainable for everyone. I see this in the personality of great trainers such as Robbins, Chopra and that’s…Personal Power. It’s like they found this special secret to living a motivated and powerful life that’s invisible to everyday people.

But you know what I discovered over the years…there is no secret. What Brendon lives by is all in this book for all to see and use. The fact that I already aligned and believed in the same ideals shows that I already had some inkling inside me that knew the truth.

So this book doesn’t show or tell me anything new that we as human beings don’t already know, but it’s given me a way to remember and become aware of my actions — sometime we need a little nudge. I like most people get sucked into the everyday drama of life and forget we have a choice in our actions and reactions. Should we choose to be conscious enough to recognise such patterns.

Choice is a form of freedom. Personal freedom is what Brendon Burchard inspires us to have in his book The Motivation Manifesto as a way to living a more meaningful life.

Brendon starts by flat out telling us that humankind’s main motivation is to seek and experience Personal Freedom. It is “…Liberty from the restrictions of social oppression and self oppression that is fear. Freed from these things, we have the ability to express who we truly are and pursue what we deeply desire.”

The book is written in a speech like format. It’s like a personal sermon on life that is projected in a big booming voice for as many people to hear and take notice. His personal energy is already infectious but reading these words take on a deeper meaning. I must say he’s not everyones cup of tea but you can’t deny he isn’t energised.

I have always wondered where this energy comes from and how he maintains his enthusiasm?

The only answer I can come up with is — he is being true to himself. There is an underlying theme in the book, that the more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect and contribute to the world. I can see how he truly connects in this way.

So that does involve being conscious and responsible for our own beliefs and behaviours.

Brendon states “The mother of motivation is choice. A choice we can make is — will my life be about aversion or ascension?”

Will you avert yourself from pain or ascend to your highest self?

We all surely have a desire to be ourselves, our true self. Becoming as Brendon says a ‘Person of Purpose’.

And you know what, all we need is within us.

I agree with Brendon that greatness does belong to those who have mastered their internal world. And so being a ‘Joyous Master’, is simply being more conscious and consistant in our attempts to sense and generate joy and gratitude.

And of course ‘Love’ is always the final and most complete cure to our inner demons.

But it all starts with a Vision, then Will, Resourcefulness and Discipline. Areas I dabble in here and there — but I’m here to learn.

So we can start by asking questions to understand our own personal power or full freedom. Such as ‘Who am I, and what is important to me?’

Who do we wish to be (Character), How do we wish to interact with others (Connection) and What do we wish to give (Contribution).

Helping us to define who we are and what we stand for and then align our actions with this identity, we become people of purpose AND of integrity.

If we make integrity a lifelong practice and then help others find their own meaningful project and causes, (I love how Brendon puts it) we create a growing mosaic of meaningful moments.

So understanding and deeply feeling who we are on the inside and then creating real meaningful moments for yourself and others is experiencing FREEDOM of NOW.

Thanks for the Motivation Brendon!

This Meaningful Life.
Alina x