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Short answer to a short question: “none!” – unless, of course, you put what you’ve learned into practice. And that’s where most people fall down. Sure, they spent a day or two and it was great, they felt invigorated, uplifted, ready for action. But research indicates that it takes approximately six weeks for the benefits of the average training course to wear off – completely – and personal development training is no exception.

But why should this happen? Because it’s less hassle to stay the same – it’s less hassle to stay “not too bad” when everybody around you is not too bad as well. It’s easier to not have your friends – or, as some of my personal development clients have told me, their nearest and dearest – looking at you as if you’ve become some kind of born-again weirdo! It’s always easier to fit in. And, it doesn’t matter what new stuff we learn, sooner or later, to a greater or lesser extent, we revert to type, we revert to our default settings, we go back to being normal. But normal is crazy – there’s seventy years of research that proves that. And not-too-bad is simply not good enough when you think about the life that you could have – effortless happiness, effortless success, peace of mind.

So, what are you going to do to change your life? Because, you need to understand, if you want it to change, you’re the one who’s going to have to do something new, something different. Don’t listen to anybody who tells you that you can change your life in five minutes – they’re after a quick buck. Pay no attention to anyone who will tell you that success is all about making loads of money – they’re the ones who want loads of money and some of it is yours! Don’t listen to people who keep recommending the latest wonderful book that they’ve just read to you – you won’t change your life by reading – you change your life by doing.

What have you got to do? You’ve got to do little things in your life differently. Try starting with little things – like try brushing your teeth with the hand that you don’t habitually use – and your mind gets used to the idea that, in every single thing that you do in your life and in every single situation in which you find yourself in your life – you have a choice. You have a choice – can choose to live automatically and mindlessly like all the normal crazy people that are content to be not-too-bad, or you can choose to focus on the present, feel the toothbrush’s bristles on your teeth, feel the awkward way you’re holding the brush, taste the toothpaste. It’s in the little detail of everyday life that you will find reality. And when you discover reality, you will discover that you can, indeed, achieve effortless success and happiness because, in reality, it simply happens.

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