John Derrick

I loved the movie Super Size Me where a man named Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald’s cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In this documentary you see Morgan go from fit to fat in less than a week. Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol shoots up, his organs take a beating, and he develops headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and even lessened sexual energy.

This movie really shows that you are what you eat, and if you eat crap like the fast food McDonald’s is peddling, you will become ill pretty quickly.

If you don’t own Super Size me, BUY IT NOW and if you have kids, have them watch this movie. My kids never beg for McDonald’s anymore. In fact, my seven year old likes to refer to them as we drive by as Mc Crapolds and I let him because I feel his term is too accurate for correction.

In this new movie, called Raw for 30 days, six ordinary people, who up until now have been eating the Standard American Diet (also known as SAD), are put on a healthy raw foods diet. The results are amazing… I’ll let the video clip do the rest of the talking. I can’t wait to own this movie!!

The Doctors, and let’s be honest, the pharmaceutical companies that make millions of dollars a month selling us pills, would like us to believe that there is no cure for diabetes. This just isn’t true. The body can heal itself, with proper nutrition and… of course…. intention. Never forget intention!

written by John Derrick

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

Even in 1760 Thomas Jefferson knew that mental attitude is everything. Two people can appear to do the same thing everyday, and yet one of them be hugely successful while the other eventually fails. Outwardly they may appear the same and appear to do the same things, but the difference is what is going on inside of them.

I was talking to someone this weekend whom I introduced to law of attraction, or positive mind power, or whatever label you want to put on it. She had been hopeful and optimistic for a couple of weeks, but when I spoke with her on the phone this Sunday, everything that came out of her mouth was negative and she had no idea.

She was telling me she didn’t have enough money and weather on the west coast was terrible and they froze at a dog show and their dog didn’t win…. and so it went on. I let her speak without interruption to see if she would catch herself at any time. She never did. I may speak to her next week sometime and who knows who she will be. She may be thinking positively, or she may have reverted to her comfort zone of negativity.

I find this common with people who are new to positive thinking. You can’t be positive for a day or a week and expect your whole life to change. It’s a life commitment.

You may think that you will have to watch your thoughts everyday for the rest of your life, and while that is true, I do have some good news.

The good news is this: Anything you do consistently for 2 months, becomes a habit. We all know how hard habits are to break, but we often only think of bad habits. Good habits can be just as hard to break. A habit is just your default mode.

If you smoke a cigarette consistently, every hour of every day, after two months you will have the habit of smoking. Now if you have ever quit smoking, as I did nearly 8 years ago, you know the first few weeks can be extremely hard. But, if you do not smoke a single cigarette consistently, every hour of every day, after two months you will have the habit of not being a smoker. A habit is simply a natural state.

So, if you work hard at being positive, for just 2 months, consistantly every hour of every day, you will develop the habit of thinking positively.

Instead of reacting to habits that form without your intention, why not actively create them for yourself?!

written by John Derrick

In this 7 minute video Secret Teachers Lisa Nichols, Michael Beckwith , Jack Canfield and John Gray share their viewpoints on what characteristics leaders should have to succeed in the world today. Tony Robbins is included here, and although he has not openly used the term “law of attraction”, he has certainly been a teacher of it to millions of people across the globe.

Do you feel abundant? Do you feel grateful?

Most importantly, are you living from your ego or your heart? If you are living from your ego, you will approach life with a “what’s in it for me” attitude. If you are living from your heart, you are there to help others and carry with you a certainty that you will be taken care of.

This is the new world we are moving into.

written by John Derrick

Sorry about missing Monday’s Motivational. I guess I was too motivated to write it.

I am working on a new project, that I am super excited about. My partner on this project is none other than Kim Miller, my teacher and mentor himself. Just thinking about this project and all that it entails gives me goosebumps.

I have to keep it hush-hush for now, and I can’t wait to share it with all of you.

When you are working on something that you love to do, you are not working at all. Instead, you are paid for having the time of your life, and that is exactly what I am doing right now.

written by John Derrick