Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More is quite a mouthful as far as book titles go, but this book is definitely enlightening and could hold the key to changing your life.

You might recognize the name of one of the authors, Dr. Joe Vitale. He has written many books, articles, and created many products about success, the law of attraction, and hypnotic writing (sales copy writing). His is probably best known for his appearance in the movie The Secret and his other bestseller book, The Attractor Factor.

The other author, Dr. Hew Len, was a psychologist in a state mental hospital in Hawaii. Using the techniques taught in this book, Dr. Hew Len healed an entire ward of criminally insane people in just a couple of years.

This book shares the story of how Joe and Dr. Len met, and subsequently the many things that Joe learned from Dr. Len during their time together. Dr. Len taught Joe the same technique he used to heal all those criminally insane people, and Joe shares that technique in the book.

Without getting into to much detail, here are the two main points that Zero Limits covers:

You are 100% Responsible For Your Life

Everything that you experience in this life is created by your thoughts.

• If you are experiencing financial difficulties, it’s because you have thoughts running through you mind of poverty.
• If you are experiencing ill health, it’s because you have thoughts running through your mind of illness.
• If someone else comes into your experience and they are giving you a hard time, you brought them into your experience with your thoughts.
• Even if someone else comes into your experience and they are having a hard time with something, you are also partially responsible for their problem simply because they are within your own experience.
• Even if you read the news and you see something about a war that you do not like, you are also partially responsible for that war because it is within your experience as you read about it.

It can be a  hard pill to swallow!

The other difficulty is that you don’t even know what you’re creating. 99.99999% percent of your thoughts actually occur at a subconscious level where you aren’t even aware of them. What you create in your life is all due to thoughts and programs that keep replaying in your subconscious mind.

You Can Change Your Results In Life

It is possible to heal any negative thoughts and programs in your subconscious mind through a process called Ho’oponopono. The process is no secret (it’s all over the internet), so I’ll share it with you here.

All you need to do is simply repeat the phrase; “I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”

You can say this phrase as a mantra, or prayer to the Divine, as a way of asking for Divine healing of your mind. Or you can simply say the phrase as if your speaking to the negative memories and programs in your subconscious mind. It doesn’t really matter, as long as you use the phrase consistently to facilitate constant healing of your thoughts.

However, as Dr. Len states in the book, Ho’oponopono is not a fast food approach to healing your mind and your life. It takes time and persistence to use the phrase consistently before you’ll notice that your life is beginning to change. There’s a lot of negative programming that needs to be healed. Be patient and trust that the process is working.

My Experience Reading Zero Limits

Overall, Zero Limits was a great book and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend reading it.

• It was an easy read, the language flowed nicely and the concepts were explained well. I finished it in two days.
• The concepts and techniques explained in the book were very enlightening. Some were completely new to me, and some I’ve come across before. This book laid them all out in a way that was easy to understand.
• There were plenty of examples provided of how using the Ho’oponopono technique has changed peoples lives. Being a results orientated individual, I like to hear examples of how something has worked for someone else before I jump in and do it myself.
• Instead of just being a technical book, Joe Vitale turned the book into a story of how he met Dr. Len and his own gradual learning and application of the Ho’oponopono technique is his own life.

My Results Using What The Book Teaches

Since I just finished reading Zero Limits a little over one day ago, I haven’t had enough time to give the Ho’oponopono technique a fair trial. As I mentioned earlier, Dr. Len states that it isn’t a fast food approach to changing your life. It takes time and persistence.

However, even though I haven’t seen any significant changes in my “external” experience of life yet, I have already noticed that I’m feeling more peaceful and calm in general. Especially when I’m repeating the “I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.” mantra. So even without the external evidence, the increased sense of peace is enough to encourage me to keep going with it.

Recommendation

This book is different from most of the “me too” books that teach about how to change your life. The main points I outlined above only scratch the surface of everything that it talks about. It’s worth taking the time to read through this one to get a better understanding of how the Ho’oponopono process works, and the principles it’s based on.

4 out of 5 stars.

Changing your life can seem like a daunting task. Luckily, one of my favorite approaches to doing just about anything, also works great for tackling seemingly big tasks like trying to change your life.

The concept is simple. Take anything you want to accomplish and chunk it down into little bite sized steps that seem a lot more manageable.

If you wanted to apply this approach to making positive changes in your life, you could work on developing one new success habit every three months. Within a year, you will have developed four new positive habits.

Just imagine what your life would be like in one year’s time if you developed four new success habits like these:

• Spending several hours reading success related or educational books every week.
• Taking action toward your goals every day.
• Exercising three to five times a week.
• Eating less processed food and more nutritious food instead.

After just one year:

• You would be regularly filling your mind with useful information to help you improve your life.
• You would be steadily moving toward your goals and dreams.
• Your body will start becoming more healthy and energetic which will in turn give you more energy to devote to other areas of your life.

If you made these kinds of changes year after year, your life will be dramatically different in very short amount of time. All because you developed one new success habit every three months.

Why Three Months?

1. You’ve probably heard before that it takes about thirty days to develop a new habit. By allowing yourself a full three months of working with a new success habit, you can be sure that the habit will become deeply ingrained in your subconscious mind. This way you can be sure that you will continue your new habit even after the three month period is up.
2. Working on just one new habit every three months seems less intimidating than a new habit every month. Four new habits a year feels a lot more achievable than twelve. The more achievable something seems, the more likely you are to do it.

What Changes Do You Want To Create?

Where you want your life to go is ultimately up to you. By implementing one new success habit in your life every three months, you will constantly be growing, improving, and empowering yourself which will allow you to enjoy a life that just keeps getting better and better.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this series of posts on how to change your life!

We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last few days, so I thought it might be a good idea to summarize everything for you into a step by step guide.

Step 1 – Become Clear

If you want to change your life, you first need to become clear about what it is you want.

Deciding exactly what you want will give your life direction and purpose.

Without having a clear goal in mind, you have nothing to move toward. It will be impossible to develop a plan to change your life if you don’t know where you want to go.

Imagine that you want to take a trip. If you have don’t know where you want to go, how can you make any sort of plan on how to get there?

Your life is no different. You need a goal, a destination in mind so that you can plan and live your so that you are constantly moving in that direction.

If you’re not clear about what you want in life, you’ll end up moving around aimlessly in a life that goes nowhere.

Read more about Becoming Clear…

Step 2 – Align Your Thoughts and Feelings

Once you’re clear about what you want, you need to align your thoughts and feelings with that desire.

What does this mean? Well, it means that you keep your mind focused on the thoughts and images of achieving your goal. You spend time everyday imagining what it would feel like emotionally and physically if your goal were achieved.

Why do this?

First, you need to keep your desire strong and believe that it’s possible for you to achieve your goal. By focusing on it daily, you will strengthen and reinforce your will to succeed.

Second, repeatedly thinking about your goal as if it were already achieved helps to reprogram your subconscious mind. If you keep bombarding your subconscious with thoughts and feelings of achieving your goal, it will eventually start helping you to make it a reality. New ideas and inspirations that can help you succeed will start popping into your head and your belief in yourself and your abilities will begin to increase.

Third, these thoughts and feelings will activate the law of attraction in your favor. Basically, the law of attraction says that like attracts like. So as you think about your goal as if it were already achieved. And as you imagine what it would feel like if your goal were already acheived, the law of attraction states that the Universe will start working to make those mental images a reality for you.

Read more about how to align your thoughts and feelings…

Step 3 – Learn What You Need to Know

In order to move towards your goals and dreams, you need to take action. The problem is that sometimes we don’t know enough to make the right moves. That’s where learning comes in.

When you have the the right knowledge, the actions you take will be a lot more effective and efficient and you will move towards your goals a lot faster.

There are many ways that you can aquire the skills and knowledge you need.

• Go to school
• Take a night course
• Read books on the subject
• Get a mentor
• Read magazines and online articles related to your goals
• You can even learn from your mistakes. At least you’ll know what not to do on your next try.

Read more about how to change your life by learning…

Step 4 – Take Action

Now that you have the knowledge you need, you’re ready to start taking action.

Action is necessary to achieve any goal. Read any good book on success, or any autobiography of a successful person, and they will tell you that you need to work to achieve your dreams.

Schedule time to take action towards your goals every week, or even better, every day. If changing your life is important, then you need to make it a priority to take the actions that will make it happen for you.

Making excuses isn’t going to change anything. A basic principle of physics explains this very well – “Nothing happens until something moves”. So get moving!

Learn more about how to change your life by taking action…

This Concludes The “How To Change Your Life” Series

I sincerely hope that you’ve found this series of posts on how to change your life to be helpful. I strongly encourage you to apply them in your own life. If you’re not already moving towards your own goals and dreams, don’t waste any more of your life. Get started today!

If you’re already working on changing your life, why not share what’s working well for you by leaving a comment below?

Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life

How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear

How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings

How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know

How To Change Your Life: Part 4 – Taking Action

This is the fourth post in a series on how to change your life. If you want to start at the beginning of the series, head on over to: How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear.

Before we talk about taking action, lets quickly recap what steps you should take before you move on with this one:

1. Become clear about what you want in your life.
2. Align your thoughts and feelings with what you decided in step one.
3. Learn what you need to know in order to create the life you desire.

If you’ve taken care of the first three steps, you’re ready to begin taking action!

Why is Taking Action Required?

Over the years I’ve come across many books and articles that say that if you want to change your life, you only need to become clear about what you want and then align your thoughts and feelings with your desire. Once you do that, supposedly the law of attraction will magically bring whatever you desire into your life.

I completely disagree with this! Every story I’ve ever read about a successful person who achieved what they wanted in life, involved them taking action to get where they wanted to go.

Now, I’m not saying that I don’t believe in the law of attraction. My personal belief is that the Universe will bring you what you want through the actions you take. It might drop what you want in your lap, but you’ll have a better chance of succeeding if you start taking action.

If all you did was sit around visualizing all day, people in overalls will eventually show up at your home and start repossessing all your stuff.

So How Does Taking Action Work With The Law of Attraction?

If you first align your thoughts and feelings with your goals, then take action, three things will occur:

1. You will notice a lot more opportunities showing up in your life.
2. You will notice that your actions are easier and more effective.
3. You will start having more ideas on how to get what you want.

This is the Universe working the law of attraction in your favor. By helping you move toward your goals instead of just giving them to you.

Why Won’t The Universe Just Give Me What I Want?

I believe that the reason that action is almost always required is that it accomplishes three things:

• First, you will have a much bigger sense of accomplishment and boost to your self-esteem if you had to work to get what you want.
• Second, you tend to appreciate what you’ve achieved more when you had to work for it. And gratitude is a wonderful feeling!
• Third, when you take action, you often encounter problems and difficulties that will force you to grow and become a better person. Growing as a person allows you to become the type of person who is capable and responsible enough to have what you desire.

How To Begin Taking Action

The first thing you need to consider is that if you truly want something, you can’t make excuses as to why you can’t go and get it.

If you think you’re to busy, what can you give up doing that really isn’t as important as your goals and dreams? Learn to prioritize where you give your time and energy so that they go to things that are truly important to you. Make sure devote time every week, or (better yet) every day, to doing things that will help you achieve your goals.

Once you’ve allocated the time to take action, the simplest way to decide what actions to take is to ask yourself this question:

What one thing can I do today that will move me at least one small step closer to my goal?

If your goal seems way to big to know what you can do to move closer to it, break it down into smaller sub-goals.

Keep The Momentum Going

Getting started is the hardest part. Once you begin taking action, you will find that it’s easier to keep going. Use this to your advantage and make sure that you regularly schedule time to work toward you goals. After a while, you will find that it starts to become a habit.

Don’t Waste Any More Of Your Life

Stop settling for the life you have if you desire something more. Remember, time is going to pass by anyways, so you might as well be moving toward what your goals.

This concludes the taking action step. Make sure to join me in the next post where we’ll be putting together all the steps of how to change your life.

For more information on the action step of how to change your life, check out the book Taking Action!

Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life

How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear

How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings

How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know

How To Change Your Life: Part 5 – Putting it all Together

This is the third post in a series on how to change your life. If you want to start at the beginning of the series, head on over to: How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear.

If you followed the instructions in the last post in this series, you have your thoughts and feelings aligned with the goals you clarified in step one. Now you’re ready for the next step…

Learn what you need to know – the skills, knowledge, and experience you need in order to achieve your goals.

Why Learning Is Important

Taking action is important to reach your goals, but sometimes you don’t have the knowledge, skills, or experience you need to take smart action.

Taking smart action means doing things effectively and efficiently. In order to do that you need to know the best ways of getting things done.

The more knowledge you have about how to achieve your goals, the faster, and easier it will be to achieve them.

So how can you acquire the knowledge, skills, and experience you need? Read on…

The Different Ways You Can Learn

Use Jobs For Experience

If you’re looking to start your own business, a great way to learn what you need to know is to work for another business in the same industry. I’ve heard of many people who successfully used this approach.

So if you want to open a bake shop, work for a baker. If you want to open a restaurant, work for another restaurant… You get the idea.

While you’re working, you can learn how things are done, what suppliers and products are available, what prices to charge, and how the business is run. It’s an excellent way to prepare yourself for opening your own business.

A Mentor

Another excellent way to aquire the knowledge you need to succeed is to find someone else who has either already achieved what you would like to achieve. Or their are at least well on their way to doing it.

These people can offer excellent advice and guidance to help you do the same. Often they are more than happy to offer advice to people just starting out. All you need to do is ask. Otherwise, it’ might be a good idea to offer to help them out in whatever way you can in exchange for their help in return. That way, both parties benefit.

If you don’t already know someone who would make a good mentor, try looking for them wherever you think they might be hanging out. Industry conferences and business meet-up groups are a great place to start.

Reading

Books, magazines, and the internet are also fantastic resources to learn what you need to know. If you can’t afford to buy your own books, your local library can be an invaluable resource.

School and Courses

Consider taking a course, or getting a diploma or degree in your desired field. Many local colleges offer correspondence or night classes if you can’t go to school full-time.

Learn From Your Mistakes and Problems

Don’t let the learning phase of changing your life hold you back from taking action. You can actually learn a lot as you go along.

When you take action toward your goals, and things don’t turn out as planned, there’s always a lesson to be learned.

Start analyzing why things didn’t work out. What happened? Why did it happen?

Once you know the cause of the problem, start brainstorming ways that you can prevent it from happening again.

Don’t Wait Until You Know Everything

Learning is important, but you shouldn’t let it stop you from taking action right now using what you already know. If you know just enough to take even one small step toward your goal, go ahead and get started. You don’t need to wait to start changing your life. You can continue to learn while you take action.

Are you ready for the next stage of learning how to change your life? Excellent! Join me in my next post where I’ll be discussing more about taking action toward your goals.

Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life

How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear

How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings

How To Change Your Life: Part 4 – Taking Action

How To Change Your Life: Part 5 – Putting it all Together

This is the second post in a series on how to change your life. If you want to start at the beginning of the series, head on over to: How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear.

If you followed the instructions in the last post in this series, you are already clear about what you want your life to be like. Now you’re ready for the next step…

Getting your thoughts and feelings aligned with what you want to create.

Why You Need To Have Your Thoughts And Feelings Aligned With Your Goals

First, Your Thoughts And Feelings Affect Your Actions

How much effort do you think you will make toward achieving a goal if you don’t believe you can realistically achieve it? You will probably not even bother starting, or else you will give up at the first sign of difficulty. Why make the effort if it’s really not possible right?

However, if you really believe that your goals can become reality, your motivation to take action and succeed will skyrocket.

By training your mind, you can actually start believing in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals. When this happens, your motivation to take action and persevere until your goals become reality will skyrocket.

Second, Your Thoughts And Feelings Help Program Your Subconscious Mind

Your subconscious mind likes consistency. It will do everything it can to keep things in your life the same.

Over the years, you may have noticed repeated scenarios in your life. Your income will generally stay the same, you often end up having similar relationship experiences, you experience the same types of failures over and over again. This is your subconscious mind at work.

If things in your life ever start varying from the norm, your subconscious brain can’t tolerate it. It will actually work against your best efforts to make positive changes in your life. This is why smokers have a hard time quitting, people who lose weight usually gain it all back, and why lottery winners often end up just as broke as they were before winning within a few years.

Thankfully, this can also be used to your advantage. Your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between something that is real and something that is imagined. So if you spend enough time imagining a new reality for yourself, your subconscious will begin to believe that this imagined reality is the way things are actually supposed to be. It will actually aid you in making your imagined reality come true.

Third, Your Thoughts and Feelings Are What Activate The Law of Attraction

The law of attraction states that like attracts like, but what exactly does this have to do with your thoughts and feelings?

The images your hold in your mind will attract similar images into your reality. So if you regularly hold mental images of you having achieved your goals, the law of attraction will kick in and start working to make those mental images come true.

The feelings you have are also have an attraction force to them. In fact, many people argue that your feelings have much more attraction power than mental images.

If you feel successful, you will tend to attract more success into your life. If you feel wealthy, you will tend to attract more wealth. If you feel worried, you will tend to attract more situations that will cause you to worry.

How To Get Your Thoughts And Feelings Aligned With Your Goals

Visualization

The most effective way to get your thoughts and feelings aligned with your goals is to use visualization.

Spend time every day imagining that your goal(s) are already a reality in your life. Use a first person perspective (looking through your own eyes) so it’s like you are right there experiencing everything first hand.

• What is going on around you?
• What does your life look like?
• Who is there with you?
• Imagine those people congratulating you.
• Imagine yourself celebrating your success with your friends and loved ones.

Make it all as detailed as possible so that it not only looks real, but it feels real too. These feelings can really ramp up your attraction power.

• Feel grateful for your success.
• Feel excited about your success.
• Feel grateful for how easy it was to achieve.
• If your goal is related to relationships, enjoy the new feelings of friendship or love.
• If your goal is related to money, enjoy the feelings of being wealthy and being able to afford whatever you want to buy.

Index Cards

Write down each goal you have on a separate index card.

Read through these cards several times a day to reinforce your visualizations. Reading through them will tend to bring up the images and feelings that you use during your visualizations. This will help to further reinforce the mental reprogramming that you’re doing.

Make it a Daily Practice

It typically takes about 30 days to start shifting the thought processes of your subconscious mind. This is why it’s important to make sure that you visualize for 20 minutes every day, for at least 30 days straight.

If you ever miss a day, you will need to start your count over.

After that, it’s good a good idea to keep up the daily habit as it will continue to reinforce your mind with images of your success. Not only will it will help you to keep focused and motivated as you take action, but it will also continue to activate the law of attraction in your favor.

In our next post, we’ll be covering part 3 of how to change your life – Learn How To Change. Be sure to join us!

Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life

How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear

How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know

How To Change Your Life: Part 4 – Taking Action

How To Change Your Life: Part 5 – Putting it all Together

This is the first post in a series on how to change your life.

If you want to change your life, there are several steps you need to take. Think of it as a formula for success.

The first thing you need to do is to become clear about what you want to create in your life.

What does it mean to become clear about what you want?

It simply means that you know exactly what you want in life. It’s not a vague concept, or just wanting your life to generally be better. You know the precise details of what you want.

Why You Need To Be Clear About What You Want

When you are clear about what you want, the Universe, or (insert the higher power you believe in) will help you create it. It will start sending the people, ideas, opportunities, and supplies you need to make it happen. All you need to do is take action when these things come your way.

So what happens when you’re not clear about what you want? Here’s an example to illustrate what can go wrong…

Imagine that I’m the Universe. You come to me and tell me that you want a new house, but you aren’t sure what kind of house. Excitedly, I reply that I will provide all the materials you need to build the house and I will even send a few people your way to help you build it.

Exciting, right?

You bet, but there’s two problems with this scenario…

First, if you don’t know what kind of house you want, you could end up putting something together that you either hate, or that falls apart, or worse.

Second, since I also have no idea what kind of house you want, I could end up sending you the supplies and assistance to build a wooden hut with dirt floors.

If your goals are vague, it’s like having a blueprint that’s all smudged and faded. It’s difficult to know what’s needed to make that blueprint become reality.

How To Become Clear About What You Want

If you already have a vague idea of what you want

If you already have an idea of what you want, you can help yourself gain some more clarity by asking yourself questions.

If you want more money, how much? What exactly do you want to do with the money? Exactly how much income would you need to do those things?

If you want to lose weight, exactly how much would you need to weigh to look and feel your best?

If you want a new partner in your life, what exactly should this person look and be like?

If you have no idea what you want

If you’re having difficulty deciding on what you want to create, try this writing exercise. Spend twenty minutes writing out a list of everything that you think you might like in your life. Don’t do any editing while you write this list, just put down everything that comes to mind.

Once you have your list, go through and compare the first item on your list to the second item. Decide which one would you like more, then put a line through the other item.

Now, compare the item you choose to the next item on your list and again cross out the one you would like less. Keep going down your list in this fashion until you’ve crossed out every item on your list but one. That remaining item is the one thing that you want to create most in your life right now.

Write It Down

Now that you’re clear on what you want to create, write it down. You might want to use one index card for each thing you want to create. Keep the cards handy and review them every day. That way you can keep yourself clear and focused on exactly what you want to create.

A goal in your head is just an idea. A goal on paper is more apt to become reality.

Be sure to check out the next post in this series when we will be discussing the next step of how to change your life.

Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life

How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings

How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know

How To Change Your Life: Part 4 – Taking Action

How To Change Your Life: Part 5 – Putting it all Together