Social Strategy Podcast, Episode 35. Welcome to the Social Strategy Podcast, where it's all about making the most of your business with smart tips on what's working now in social media, online business, and good old fashioned networking. And now your host was also known as Ross Key Art on Twitter, Vernon Ross. Hey guys and welcome to another episode of the Social Strategy Podcast, bringing you the best in online business, social media, good old fashioned networking, and on Mondays, mindset, although we've been getting these issues out on Tuesdays for some reason.
So I wanted to talk to you guys today about declaring your personal power and talking to you about or asking the questions, are you living at the highest level of joy that you're capable of? So many times we're not living a life that's an expression of our true selves. And I think we have to ask, why not? So over the past few days, I've been considering these questions in my own life and doing reflection and wondering, you know, how do you get to the point of where you are right now?
Are you making a conscious choice? If you just break down conscious in choice, conscious is about being awake and being aware of your surroundings. In choice is when you're presented with more than one opportunity, what is it that you actually take advantage of? Personally, and through some of the things I've been reading, freedom is the choice that you have.
And I'm not talking about freedom as in you're bound to something or, you know, like American freedom, nothing as far as, you know, political or anything else like that. I'm talking more of how you live your life. I'm not talking about the reckless abandon where you walk away from everything that you've been working on and everyone that you've been working with and family and just go and do whatever. But I am talking about where you're living life in your own emotional life, on your own terms.
Actually, freedom isn't about not having responsibility or selfishly pursuing other things. It's the exact opposite. It's claiming you're right to be happy, claiming you're like you're right to be fully awake in the moment. You know, how often are we not fully awake in the moment?
Always looking down at your phone, not engaged in conversation, not fully aware in situations. You know, if you're at a, at your kids sporting event and you're on your phone or you're reading a book, how often does that happen instead of being fully engaged in what they're doing? It's just one of those things that, you know, you have to, you have to reclaim that. You have to declare your personal power, being fully aware in the moment and being fully engaged in life.
Remember back when you were in grade school, kindergarten, early grades, first grade, second grade, when you're still really, really excited about being there and you're just waiting and waiting and waiting for attendance and for the teacher to call your name and so you could raise your hand and go, I'm here, I'm present. Claim it back. Say that you're here. Say that you're present.
You're ready to be counted and saying that to yourself, that, hey, look, I'm here, I'm present and I'm ready to have a joyful life. Declare that personal power. All right, my friends, that's pretty much all I got for you. I did want to let you know over the past week, I've been reading the Motivation Manifesto's from Brindivre Chartres, his good friend online and I haven't met Brindivre personally, but we have, you know, chatted a bit online and he's watching this new book and it's coming out.
I believe it releases on the 19th of October. Right now, he's been giving away the book free. I actually think that ends tonight. So today is October the 14th.
If you guys have not gone out and ordered your copy of this book, go out to VernonRoss.com, four slash manifesto and pick up a copy of this book. It's only seven bucks for shipping. You're not actually paying for the book. It's gonna be on Amazon.
And right now, if you go to Amazon, look to pre-order it, it's $20. So it's 1995. It's a hardbound book. It's really nice.
It looks like the Robert Greene, 50 Laws of Power book. It's very similar to that, but it is a masterfully written book. And I know that you guys are going to enjoy reading this, going through it and it comes with a 12 week course where Brindivre actually takes you through the steps and the declarations that are in this book. And of course, you know me, you heard me saying to Claire, your personal power, there are nine declarations in the book and he walks you through it.
And I know that if you go through this book and you go through this course, that it can actually have an effective change in your life. And that's what I want for you guys. I want you guys to be able to change your lives, change your mindset because all of this stuff actually helps you be more successful in business. If you're present in your life, business is easy.
You make better strides, you achieve more and you're able to do more. Whether that's in a job, whether that's in business or quite honestly just in life, which is the most important thing. That's what I want for you guys. All right guys, I'm gonna go ahead get out of here and I will see you in the next episode.