Personal Development Unplugged

F#ck The Noise How can we be free from all the noise that distracts us from being who we really are and can be? This is in effect Wakey Wakey #3 in an attempt to wake up from a dream, being sleep. Like my friend Tim Freeke's book Lucid Living questions are we dreamers dreaming this life or can we awake from it? For me, it's all the noise that deafens our senses and tries to manipulate our thoughts and behaviors. Is it just me, I plan my week, my days or should I say daze and when I look back over the day I find I missed and sometimes didn't even think of those things I intended to do. Please say it's not just you Cloughie. And what do I do when I notice this? I give myself a really good dressing down - How's that working for me? The thing is every year, maybe every month or week, there's new noise to take your attention away from creating a great life. So how do we combat this intrusion and manipulation? Well, I'll tell you by following in part Jocko Willink, David Goggins, and Joe Rogan to name but three ( I

Rewind To Kindness A little bit of a personal sharing of a behavior I am not proud of and want to change. I think when you listen you may well experience the same emotions and behavior and know its consequences if not checked. And the thing is we know it's not a good thing to do or be yet we, well me, still do it. But I found the simplest way to make amends and recognize the failing and thereby hope we, I, will get it right more than I get it wrong. What is it Cloughie, this behaviour?!!! Passive agression - passive agressive. And it's not that passive is it? It's only a 5-minute quickie episode so have a listen and see if it resonates. After you do please share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-425-rewind-to-kindness/ Oh! Nearly forgot the YouTube link if you want to watch https://youtu.be/Q8dBIWpRc14 Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email m

Day Dream Believer Are you? Do you? What do I mean about all that? Well, we all daydream and most of the time we don't realize we're doing it. That can be a bit of a shock if you are one of those people who think they can't visualize because you do it perfectly when you daydream. The thing is I am not talking of those daydreams we simply get lost in and then forget them when things interrupt us. So what are you talking about Cloughie? I hear you ask. I am talking about deliberate daydreaming, using this natural superpower, this natural phenomenon to create confidence, success, and anything you want. The great thing it's easy, simple, and takes no time at all or as much time as you like because when you do it the feeling you get is also great! How am I going to do that Cloughie? Well if this was an article I'd write it out for you but it isn't so as always you will have to press play, listen, and take notes. And maybe get yourself a Dream Book - available at all good stationers  :O) Please share https://perso

How Interesting Hopefully, this will get you thinking just as it did me It's about being interested but in what? That's what I want you to muse just as I did. Confused? All will become clear after you press play Enjoy and share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-424-how-interesting/ ‎ and the video https://youtu.be/x-I9I8okJiA Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you want to subscribe to the podcast (I know you do) click here to learn more Or simply click here to go straight to Apple Music / iTunes to subscribe OR leave a review Remember for my specially designed programs for developing Supreme Inner Confidence, Free Your Life of Anxiety and specialize Hypnosis tracks go to PaulCloughOnline.com If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/podcast Follow and inter

Creating The Real You If we could do this in half an hour that would be magic and I am not a magician. Creating the real you is a work in progress and you wouldn't be here if you thought otherwise. This episode is inspired by reading 'The Creative Act' by Rick Ruben famously from a music background. As I read it (well I am not finished yet) I kept comparing his thoughts on creativity in music to that of personal development, and self-improvement. The terms of finding our true voice and the privilege of being able to create just resonated with me and I hope I can resonate with you with my comparisons and a process or two. I also look at what stops us in this creating of our true self, those limiting beliefs of "I'm not worth it" or " I don't belong here" and how we can change those and find more supporting beliefs and their associated emotions and behaviors. Please join me by pressing play and I hope you enjoy  :O) Please share if you do https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/370-creating-the-real-you/ Agai

Thinking About Thinking  A 5-Minute Muse I used to think I thought about things but after a while, I thought about that and decided I didn't, or if I did I didn't do it very well. How well do you think? And could you think better and deeper? I was a lazy thinker. A lot of the time I used to leave it all up to my unconscious mind and wait, and guess what? Yup! I just waited and waited. Let's have a muse, so please come with me for 5 minutes or so after which you may think to share this  :O) https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-423-thinking-about-thinking/ Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you want to subscribe to the podcast (I know you do) click here to learn more Or simply click here to go straight to Apple Music / iTunes to subscribe OR leave a review Remember for my specially designed progr

Right Here Right Now - I'm Safe Past events and memories can and do evoke negative emotions such as anger, fear, hurt, and guilt - you fill in the blank along with their associated limiting beliefs. And we continue to feel them long after they have finished. We get anxious, worry, panic - you fill in the blank thinking of things that might happen in the future and play wonderous movies in our head of all the bad things that might happen. AND....... They are all in your head. The past is gone, finished, it's over and the future hasn't happened which all means tight here, right now those negative emotions, beliefs, and internal movies are all of your own making because right here, right now you are safe. In this episode, we'll look into how to change this by choosing a safer way to be because all these other ways are no longer appropriate. Getting your unconscious mind to find and access ways to keep you safe and deal with all that Negative 'STUFF'. Please come with me on this dive down the rabbit hole and see,

If You Believe Act Like You Do I was listening to someone who some like and some don't, Russell Brand and he said something that struck me and, made me think and connect to NLP. What did he say Cloughie? If you believe in God, act like you do" And that rang the bell inside my head ACT AS IF and how often do we do that? I know we know the concept but how consistent are we at doing that? And if we did act as if with the positive mindset of our ultimate vision we have of ourselves more often wouldn't our lives be so much richer? It's just a 5-minute muse to get us thinking https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-422-if-you-believe-act-like-you-do and to see me recording this https://youtu.be/G8KVOUR7bq4 Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you want to subscribe to the podcast (I know you do) click here

#368 Magical Steps How many magical steps to create the life you want, to find the real you, to find and follow your passion? Have a look at YouTube you will find all manner of the correct number of steps which all, if not most, are BS and when you look are 'Clickbait'. There are a specific number of magical steps but they are never the same for everyone or specific projects. I'll share a true story of how Joseph, My youngest son, and I were given magical steps to create, or better said, increase our NLP and Hypnosis trainings. This has stayed with me and used, and adapted to create other successful outcomes so if that's of interest listen up!    :O) And I also believe you are in the best position to take advantage because of your intention to create that life of being the best version of you - You wouldn't be here if you didn't. I promise I won't leave you hanging without the How-to, the process, it's all here. I'd love to hear of your success and sharing those will really allow you to recognize just how far

A New Way To Learn Something New Is this new? I think so but is there really anything that's new these daze? Disregarding the above this five-minute quickie episode is merely to get you to consider a different approach to learning something that is difficult and could lead to frustration and if it works, and I think it does, has to be a good thing. It starts with looking at what you want to learn or improve in a way that you spend less time on it and more time on what you're good at. I think 'they' call it counter-intuitive So spend the next 5 or so minutes with me and see, hear and feel what you think of this approach and after you do please share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-421-a-new-way-to-learn-something-new and there's a video of this of me recording this episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/V8qtU8IP1Mg Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. J

#367 Getting Better Every Day For me, personal development is partly striving to be a better me every day, just a bit, bit by bit. This is both a long-term goal and the steps along the way to constantly be the best version of me to find the REAL ME. And that's great but we need specificity (Don't you just love that word?  :O) Let's take a look at this thing I've termed 'Wheels and Spokes' and you will find it's a constant work in progress. Wheels are the different areas/contexts of your life and the spokes that make up the wheel. I'm sure I didn't coin this myself but the metaphor helps me. The thing is whilst you can't work on every area at once when you work on one other areas just tend to improve as well -Cool! If we miss out on this specificity (love it) I think we can experience negative emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, anxiety, and even grief. So.............. we will dive into the HOW'S which is, to me, the thing so many don't do and I pride myself in sharing. So without further ado, this is a po

Where Do I Start I Don't Know The First Step This is not a goal-setting episode because if you don't know what to do first toward what you want it won't help. Why is that Cloughie? Well, when we think we have no clue what to do or have too many what to do's we get overwhelmed and "Oh No! I'm procrastinating again!" and you're not and we all do it some time or other. And there is a solution and guess what? It's both simple, we like simple, and it's easy as in not complicated. If you don't know where you want to go there is no step to take and if it's not important to you then you probably won't want to start or finish. So..... Obviously, you do need to know where you want to go or achieve and it has to be important to you - Your why. Then what? Well you know this is a podcast, a listen-and-learn thing, so come with me by pressing play >>>> sit comfortably and we'll begin   :O) Oh! And as usual, it is always kind to share and pay it forward https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-420-where-do-i-start-i-do

#366 Making Life Richer Don't you think it's a shame when we're doing something like reading a book, or watching a film and you realize you can't remember what you read or what you watched? Where were you and what were you missing out? To me, that's simply a waste of the finite time we have on little ole planet Earth. And if you add that time up over the days, weeks, and years WOW! what a lot of time we waste. What would it be like if we could break this pattern of foggy forgetfulness and become more aware of the present? And when you convert that time we used to waste - BOOM! let's see, hear, and feel the richness of the life we live and notice how that expands into all the areas of our life because it will - As you will often hear me say "You will never know how far the ripples of change will go and they will" From this, we can begin to pursue an even richer set of experiences and I know that's one reason for being here and the more interested you become the more interesting you are. Come dive with me into

No One Cares So Choose How To Feel It's time to muse again and to do it over how you want to feel and make sure you never let anyone make you feel negative - Because they don't and they can't. So let's take five minutes or so just to muse and use it to remember you get to feel how you want to feel and when you don't it's an excuse. No more excuses and be the way you want to be, the YOU you want to be and begin to act as if, I'll explain when you press play Please share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-no-419-no-one-cares-so-choose-how-to-feel Oh! And this episode is on YouTube video and you can see me in person https://youtu.be/yGkrITcR9qg Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you want to subscribe to the podcast (I know you do) click here to learn more Or simply click here to go straight to

I'm Really Not Good Enough And I don't have to be a perfectionist and have every bloomin' thing just right When you get to let go of that life becomes a pleasure and you can look forward to simply just getting better each day and enjoying the process. And talking of processes I have one here in this episode so jump in it's not that long of an episode. Do you have that old limiting belief of "I'm not good enough", most of us do somewhere in our lives? And when we begin to understand the positive intention behind that belief and the conflict it's causing now things tend to change - for the better and that's where we are going today. It's a subject you will find in past episodes here and no doubt in the future = see if this resonates with you. Please share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/365-im-really-not-good-enough/ ‎ Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe.

One More Thing - One More Time So a 5-minute Quickie to muse on getting things done without all of the overwhelm of what we imagine ALL you have on your mind. We can all do 'Just One More' and it only has to be one more. Imagine if in the past you had done one more on something you want to improve. It might be one more rep or one more minute or one more page or one more - Well you fill in the blank. Or share one more episode :O) https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-418-one-more-thing-one-more-time Oh! Nearly forgot - This episode is in video format too so you get to see me as well as hear me https://youtu.be/JotygqB6Ahg Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you want to subscribe to the podcast (I know you do) click here to learn more Or simply click here to go straight to Apple Music / iTunes to s

I Don't Deserve This But You Do But You Just Don't Realise it! Great question from a listener got me really thinking (and It hurt a little) I'm so used to "I'm Not Good Enough" and so many feel that way but this was and is a subtle difference don't you think? So I wanted to discover the positive intention behind this limiting belief and I think I got it, well one of them. You'll have to let me know if you think there are others. And........ Not only do we dive deep into this but I'll share with you ways to change this belief and to realize you got it all because of you and the real you that you're missing. Please come with me, I really think you will enjoy what you find and when you do please share https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/364-i-dont-deserve-this/ Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you w

Do you Walk and Talk? "If you believe in God then act like you do" This statement got me thinking - Talking the talk or do you really walk that talk or walk the walk? I know we like to think so but so many ask to be on this podcast but when it comes to stepping up they don't. Please come with me on this 5-minute quickie to ponder and muse and see where we fall short and make the change to live by and to our values and beliefs. You might want to share the episode too https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-417-do-you-walk-and-talk/ Oh! Nearly forgot - when I can I'm hoping to video the FMQ's and upload them to YouTube and this is one of them. so if you are visually stimulated and want to see the Hulk in action 'O)  catch this link and tell me what you think https://youtu.be/y_ZqhwQ0FWo Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelo

Life Has No Meaning Until.......... It's a fact, life has no meaning, not to you, not to me, not to anybody. Now I know that seems an odd thing to say but it's true until.............. YOU give it meaning based on your life experiences, values, and beliefs. This is why you can love something that's happening right now and I could loathe it because of the meaning we put on it. But what if we change our filters how would that change what we perceive to be true? Hmmmmmm. Come with me and let's see what will happen and how we can change the way we see things and when we do how the things we see change. It's a lot more interesting than I make it sound I promise you. please share what you learn and the episode too: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/363-life-has-no-meaning-until/ Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplu

Law of Attraction Update And before you say well I don't believe in the Law of Attraction this will still work for you on a biological level. I heard a snippet in a conversation and thought ah! I can use that to make things even stronger in setting dreams and making them become real. It's 'The Feeling of The Wish fulfilled' and then some. Have a listen, then do it and see how well it works and how different you feel when you do it. Oh! After that share his too please https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-416-law-of-attraction-update Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you want to subscribe to the podcast (I know you do) click here to learn more Or simply click here to go straight to Apple Music / iTunes to subscribe OR leave a review Remember for my specially designed programs for developing Supr