The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation NowWe all know what convenience is however most of us have never thought about how much we “get into it” and how hurtful that it is.In this quick episode, I discuss the two aspects of convenience that hurt us and a new way we can be to avoid the dangers of convenience.One way that we live from convenience is in the moment. We may not want to work out or mow the yard or run to the store. All understandable, however, this complacency of behavior often leads to more complacency.The second way I discuss is life complacency. We often don’t stretch ourselves to create what we want in life because it’s not convenient. That is the death of great success and achievement!Transformational Takeaway: If you really want something then do whatever it takes to make it happen, even when it’s not convenient.Mentioned Resources:Solve Your Problems AudioLet's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowYou know what you were probably taught: When you do and achieve certain things you’ll be a success in life. You know, when you get good grades, graduate college, get a good job, get married and the list goes on.The reality is that in most parts of the world we are taught that in order to be happy we have to do a lot of achievement-oriented things and then we spend our entire life trying to do these things that we think will create what we want in life and then we’ll be happy.The conundrum here is that many people do things that make them unhappy so that they can have what they want in life and be happy.Do you see how backwards that is? Many of us do a bazillion things in pursuit of happiness and the things we’re doing in that pursuit make us unhappy. Example: “I want a lot of money and to be a success and I need an MBA. I hate school and graduate school but I need to do it to get what I want so I can be happy.”That’s insanity, to invest a large part of your life being unhappy so that you can ultimately be happy.The truth is…we are programmed like this mentally since we were little kids. Our parents taught us that if we did a lot of things in life we could achieve more and then and only then would we have a good life and be happy. Notice here, with this broken paradigm we are set up for a lifetime on happiness based upon working in a system where we always have to achieve more so we can have that final happiness. That in itself is broken as the premise is always achieve to be happy and it’s become because once we get “there,” we’ll no longer be happy because our MO is to always have another “there.”Happiness is a state of mind and what precedes that state of mind is awareness, and the one thing that we first have to change to be happy is the awareness of what makes us happy and unhappy.In this episode, I discuss this entire broken cycle of existence and how most of us stay trapped in it for a lifetime. And, it does not have to be that way.What we need to change to be happy is nothing. We learned that if we did a whole list of things then and only then would we be happy. And even that, we spend a lifetime trying to change ourselves to be happy. That is broken.There is a better way, a happier way and I discuss it in this episode.Transformational Takeaway: Just be.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 1: “Transforming Your Life From The Inside Out”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowWe’ve all been there. Someone does something nasty to us and some part of us feels compelled to do the same, to react, to toss stones back. And, in truth, one of the most powerful things we can do is “evolve” evolve out of that and be compassionate.I remember many years ago hearing Wayne Dyer say, “would you rather be right or be kind?” That’s a huge statement because most of us are more concerned with being right, even if we have to be “mean” to make ourselves right.In this episode, I discuss the role of compassion in our evolution to rap “open-heartedness.”How open-hearted do you think you are? I’m not talking about being nice when you want to and being a “good person.” I’m talking, how open-hearted are you with people when they are hating on you, judging, criticizing, and such?Realize this, if angry, hateful, judgmental people….even family who does this…if you allow them to do it and you judge and throw anger back at them, you’ll spend your life doing this until you master compassion. And, if you do that, they are controlling you!I’m still on the path to mastering this and in this episode, I share my journey to compassion and open-heartedness and perhaps some of it will resonate with you.There is a lot I say in this week’s episode and here is a premise I request you explore: When others hate on you or throw anger at you, they are not telling you who you are, they are telling you who they are.The key, which I address in this episode, is to “polish yourself” so all the hate, judgment, and anger of others “slides” right off you.Transformational Takeaway: I am not who you think I am, you are who you think I am. Listen to this episode and explore how you can expand this open heartedness in your own life.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowWhen you hear that question it catches most of us off guard. I mean, we’ve all grown up hearing about all the things that are bad for us. Too much alcohol leads to alcoholism, gambling can lead to an addiction, sex can be an addiction, and even exercising can be an addiction.The twist in this episode is that yes of course addictions can be harmful but what if addictions could be good and helpful? If that was the case then what would be your best additions? What addictions would help you live a better life? What if you became addicted to those things? Let’s start here. Your brain is designed to create habits and habits can lead to addictions – both positive and negative ones. A part of the brain called the Basal Ganglia is responsible for creating and housing our brain-based unconscious habits and the point of this podcast is that given the fact that the brain creates addictions, then let’s use it to create healthy and good addictions. In this episode, I gently touch upon the brain and its creation of habits but what I want to get across in this episode is that your brain will and does create addictions so pick the most powerful ones that will serve you. Next, we often think of addictions as either chemical or behavioral but rarely do we think of addictions in terms of addictive thinking. SO…..what negative and counterproductive thinking are you addicted to? Worry, anger, doubt, fear, jealousy, envy…to name just a few. As thinking patterns can also become thought addiction patterns, do you sabotage yourself with addictive negative thinking? As I discuss in this episode, there is a way out of this negative cycle of addictive and counterproductive thinking and that way is operating from higher function of the mind which supersedes the brain. Mind and brain are not the same things. And, in this episode, I talk about how important it is for us to “Know Ourselves” as higher functioning beings of mind and spirit and not just the brain-based / habit bases “thinker.” When we operate from higher function of mind, it becomes a lot easier to manage brain-based behaviors that often keep us trapped. Transformational Takeaway: To know yourself is to consciously choose your addictions.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 5 : Why Your Bad Habits Are So Hard To BreakEPISODE 173: “Podside Chat: How Much Authority Do You Have In Your Life?”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowThe title is misleading for many or rather they misinterpret it. When we think of authority the first thing we think of is that word in a social context. Meaning, we have authority as parents and preachers and doctors and lawyers, etc.This is the lowest form of authority as it’s determined by social structures, norms, values, and socio-economics.When I say authority, I mean…what authority do we have as a Being? What authority are we born with? What authority is born into us?I know most of us don’t think about it that way but that’s the way I want you to start thinking about it. When you do, it will help you discover your true and unlimited power.Most of us lose all our power even as a human Being because we give our inborn authority away to parents, school, church, teachers, and such. We let others rob us of our potential, desires, wishes, and true power, and then most of us spend years trying to get our innate authority back.As I discuss in this episode, you’re a human being “on a big rock traveling through the cosmos.”So my question is, “How much authority to you have compared to how much you think you can have?”How much and what authority do you have in life?A slippery question to ask and even harder to answer: What if you could do, be or have anything in life? The truth is that you can and because you have been socialized and conditioned to give all your power away all of these become hard for you.Candidly, you’re superhuman and if you’re like most people, you work from about 3% of your ability and potential.Let’s start to change your thoughts and perspectives about that in this episode.Transformational Takeaway: ANYTHING is possible when you hold your affirmative attention on it because you have the authority of the universe in you.Mentioned Resources:Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita MoorjaniDisclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowIn this episode, I go in a few different places…which is not new.I’m doing another episode on attention and I know you’ve heard me say, “You are where your attention is.”The motivation for the episode is that I got the first iTunes review less than five stars in a long time. As I read the review my first thought was, “Yes, XYZ about the podcast bothers her because that’s where her attention is.”So, the motivation for this episode is that three-star review. Thank you three-star review person!Ok, so back to attention. Let’s dig into two kinds of attention,Petty annoyances and 2) Life circumstances.When it comes to petty annoyances we often let the most ridiculous things annoy us: The way someone smacks their food, the way someone brushes their teeth, the way someone says particular words and the list goes on. You get the point and what are your petty annoyances?Next up is life circumstances. I’ll keep this simple: Where you are in all areas of life is a reflection of where you have held your attention. Of course, it’s not “one-time” attention and for many, it’s a lifetime accumulation of attention.Your wealth, health, and relationship status are all a reflection of your attention and if you want to create more in life you must move your attention to that.You must keep your attention on the things that you want, not the things that you do not want because when you focus on what you do not want you just create more of that.So, want to know where you have held your attention for maybe months or years or decades? Look at the circumstances of your life. These are what your attention has created.Transformational Takeaway: See things as you want them to be, not as they are.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowSo many people will say things like “So and so is my Guru” and when they do that they are giving a lot of their power to that guru.As you already know from listening to this podcast, our lives work from the inside out and we have to recreate our lives from the inside out.All this being said, we create our lives from the inside out so what you have in your life has already been created from the inside out, and that there is metaphorically your guru.When you want leadership in life let your life be its own leadership. Let what you have and have not created. Let where you are in life be your guru and your gyroscope to where you want to go.Truth be told and as you may already know, you can have anything in life with one caveat. You must be responsible for creating it.Here’s the challenge that most people run into. They hope and wish and want and then they stop there, why? Easy…fear.Fear is the great debilitated.The big question I have for you in this episode and I preface it inside the episode is, what fears can you let go of that hold you back and down. Until you let things out of your life nothing new will come into your life and this specifically applies to letting fear go so you can have more.So, as it seems, fear is one of your greatest gurus because it can be your greatest teacher and mirror about exactly where you are in life or it can be your greatest obstacle. Use it wisely and to your advantage.In a nutshell, your life is your life. It’s yours! When you match your life against where you want it to be let that in itself be your guru for what needs to change.Transformational Takeaway: Your Life Is Your Ultimate GuruMentioned Resources:EPISODE 57: “Life is Choice”EPISODE 157: “Chelsea: The Power Of Choice To Change Your Life”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowAs you know, I’ve only had one guest on my podcast and that person is James Wedmore. James is an industry leader in online business building and online entrepreneurship.He’s back with me in this episode and we talked about so much I had no idea what to title this episode. We talked about many aspects of money so I kept it simple and titled it – Money, money, money.As a quick recap I can tell you here are some main themes in this episode.We talked about… [5:19] How the masses allow money to become their master. [16:36] AYNI – The ancient principle of giving and receiving [18:22] Why “expansion” for others is the way to wealth [20:25] Why so many people fear asking for money [38:20]Why money is actually a game [44:57]The importance of valuing the value we create in life [1:02:01] How not to give all your power to money And, so, so much more.We talked for an hour about many aspects of money and even if you don’t own an online business listen to this episode because the tax truth is that you should own some kind of business, no matter what it is.If you’re wanting to make more money in whatever you do in life or to capitalize on an online business then give this episode a listen, you’ll love it!Mentioned Resources:Episode 33: “AYNI – The Reciprocity Of Life”Episode 115: “Spirituality, Business, and Prosperity”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowAs you read that headline, Nothing Has Any Meaning Except The Meaning I Give It, what does that mean to you?I know that’s a simple question but it’s a powerful realization when we come to understand that everything in our life has meaning, and we are the ones who have given meaning to it.Life’s ups and downs, we give meanings. Life’s blessings, we give meaning. Divorce and marriage we give meaning. Sex life, no sex life, adultery, loyal partners, we give it all meaning. Having a job, not having a job. Having money, not having money, we give it meaning.The biggest mistake that most of us make is that we make the meaning about our own worth and value and we devalue ourselves when we compare ourselves against what others have and do not have, we give that meaning…and usually it’s negative meaning.Look at all the things you worry about in life, what does it mean that you worry and what meaning are you giving to the things that you worry about?It’s pretty simple and also conversely complex but your life is a big bundle of meanings and it’s you who places the meanings on your life. Do you place positive or negative meanings? Do your meanings build you or destroy you? Do your meanings keep you healthy or destroy your health. Transformational Takeaway: You are the creator of your life because you create based upon the meanings you hold.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowStop thinking and know more sounds oxymoronic, right? I totally understand because we have been taught since we were kids that we had to excel at “thinking.” You know, it was all about how smart we were, good grades, etc. What if that cultural thought actually kept and keeps you trapped?Rumi once said something like to be silent is to know everything. When he said silent, he meant that we should slow down and stop the overthinking and quiet the mind.In this episode, I talk about some of the limitations of our “thinking” brain versus our “knowing” mind.As you’ll discover, I talk about meditation and how that’s the first place to start and it’s also a huge limitationsto get stuck in that place. I know those who meditate think what I just said contradicts what they think, however, to just “mediate” is to work from only one level of mind.Ideally, we want to learn to manage our thinking and brain, and when we do that the silent mind begins to open up for us.Transformational Takeaway: When you get out of your analytical thinking your silent mind begins to open for you.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 6: “Here’s The Only Place To Find Your Highest Potential”Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon HillBinaural Beats, Healing Meditation Music, Relaxing Music Meditation, Healing Meditation Music CalmSolfeggio 432 Hz – 1 Hour Positive ResonanceDisclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin