Personal Development Unplugged

What's the point - There's always a point You just have to recognize it Is there a point to self-development, bettering yourself, or following a path of personal development? Look I know and you know the answer so why sometimes is it so hard and why do we falter? Everyone tells you it's the thing to do - that's a no-brainer! Derrr! What they don't tell you is how to make it easier to succeed at it or what to do when you do falter Da DA! That's where we are going in this episode, understanding what's happening when we falter and ways to use it as a springboard to the next level. It doesn't matter in which context you're stuck in this will just work. So come with me on this dive to find your success and when you have please share this episode so others can follow you. Here's the link: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/265-whats-the-point-theres-always-a-point 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 oth

Climb every mountain because... When you do you will achieve what is uniquely you A spontaneous five-minute quickie podcast and we're on YouTube too (I'll put the link down below) Straight from an insight from my morning journaling I heard 'When you reach the top of the mountain there's no-one there' ....... or is there and are there other mountains? You betcha' Or is the mountain the metaphor of your personal achievements, your unique metaphor, and can you guide more to the top or be that inspiration? Please listen and muse Here's the link of the audio to share:  https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-348-climb-every-mountain-because and that YouTube link:  https://youtu.be/npzKTHaXeBk 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

The BS of You Are the Average of the 5 People You Spend The Most Time With Or maybe it's not quite as you think it is We've all heard this and it seems, on the face of it, to make sense but if we look deeper what would you find? Well that's exactly where we're headed in this episode, to explore why this is not complete BS but more of a generalization and generalizations as we know are too general :O) When you know the 'truth' of the real effect and where and how that effect is created then we can really understand specifically the way you are affected and I'll let this little secret 'out of the bag' it isn't just those 5 people! And knowledge, whilst we think is power, as we know without action is useless, and if you are prepared to come with me as I share with you some golden nuggets of HOW to address this and in fact become the one person that brings up the average. This could have been a '2 parter' but I got in the flow and couldn't stop so buckle up and let's learn together and when you do, please share t

Sh*t happens and how to use it People often talk of it happening but very few talk of how to deal with it or use it and that's where we are different! Let's dive into this less discussed subject and find the causes, how and why we view it, or filter it into our subjective experience in the way we do. How can we change our experience of these experiences and use them for good is again very seldom shared and in this episode, as usual, we'll go into the 'HOW TOs' We will also look at both the negative sh*t happening and the POSITIVE sh*t happening. There is explicit content here, I guess the title gives that away, but please don't let that stop you from coming with me and learning ways and processes you can gain control of what happens around you and how it affects you. As usual, there's not so much narrative here as it's an audio experience so dive in and press play >>> If you like what you hear please share this episode: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/263-sht-happens-and-how-to-use-it/ Shine brightl

Being Kinda Kind Not a 'Soppy' podcast just a likkle bit deep What is it with all this vitriol and shouting at each other and not thinking? I know it's a few but hell it's noisy!!!! Given all of that a couple of things that have happened recently have shone a light on simply being kind. It may cost you nothing, maybe a little bit, we've all got the ability, the skill yet how many use it and if we do use it could we do it more often - Being kind that is. You would think this would be a very short episode but there's more in this than you would think -  until you think that is    :O) And that's what I've done here and I hope you will join me for 'a spell' and see how you feel or see or hear the world differently. I hope you do and enjoy it too. If you do please be kind and share this episode, here's the link: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/262-being-kinda-kind/ Thank you as always for spending your valuable time with me, together we will make a difference Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can le

The Amateur or Professional You And It's Your Choice Another 5-Minute Quickie podcast episode to get you thinking Are you an Amateur or Professional in everything you do? You see you don't have to be paid for what you do to act professional and when you do act 'As If' you were a professional everything will change. Sometimes it's only a little bit of fear or anxiety that holds you back or it may you have never thought this way. So come with me for the next 5 or so minutes and let's start to think differently and affect so many different contexts/areas of your life from career, side hustles, hobbies, creativity or well you fill in the blank. Please enjoy and share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-347-the-amateur-or-professional-you 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

How Hard Should You Work?? Inspired by the Chase Jarvis podcast 'Creative Calling' I love this guy's work and I just had to stick my two cents worth to his podcast of the same title. It inspired me to look at this slightly differently in as much as 'How hard shouldn't you work?' and how can we ensure we have work/life harmony in everything we do and how hard we should or shouldn't put ourselves into everything we do, that's right everything we do. When you get this right life just opens up and allows you to do more and experience so much wonder and that's got to be good - Right? Come with me to explore this subject and I'll share with you not only the How-To but the What Ifs as well. I think we're a little unique that way because so few go into what if let alone plural :O) In the next 35 minutes, you could actually change your life for the better and for all those that surround you and the only payment is to 'Pay It Forward' - Share what you learn and share the podcast here's the link to this episode: https:

Taking the Anxiety and Fear from Planning Your Future I just couldn't let this go I'm pretty proud of the previous podcast 'Not another Bloody goal-setting workshop' and the detail I put into it and then it hit me. DOH!!! What about the what if? What about the 'what if' you might ask? Exactly :O) I missed it, I fell into the trap that everyone else does and is at the core of our podcast philosophy which is to share the 'How to's' and the what if those don't work. You see everyone who shares this kinda stuff forgets that sometimes we have things that stop us from planning our future, our goals, or our wishes such as Limiting Beliefs, Negative Emotions, and resultant behaviors. The 'I'm Not Worth It', 'Who Am I To' - You fill in the blank The Fear, Anxiety, Guilt - You fill in the blank The Procrastination, Starting Not Finishing, The Giving Up - You fill in the blank I couldn't let it pass, I couldn't let it go. So I've addressed this probably the most important part of planning your future, your goals, your w

Does Fear Make You Feel Safe? That's what someone said! Really? What really does fear do for you? What's it's positive intention? Because your unconscious mind does nothing without a positive intention. But when the behaviour (FEAR) is now in conflict with your unconscious mind's intention and knows about the conflict I believe it has to change AND find a better way. We just need to help it find so many better ways. :O) It's only a 6 minute Five Minute Quickie to get you thinking and will, I have no doubt, lead to a longer #episode. Please share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-346-does-fear-make-you-feel-safe Hey! You can even catch this FMQ in video format on Youtube: https://youtu.be/a_71wh8iNdE 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

Oh No! Another Bloody Goal Setting Workshop - NOT! From creating our reality, our future, and literally our present I want to have a conversation about changing wishes, dreams, goals, what you want to do, be and have from the ethereal to making them happen. We all have the above and they almost certainly will fade away if we don't take action But just taking action without a plan and even more importantly really knowing what you specifically want and how that would be and how it will affect everything in your life ends in what some people call failure or simply put a result not what you wanted - What a waste of time! I want you to achieve those dreams, wishes, goals, what you want to do, be and have AND enjoy both the process and the result. Soooooo......... We'll go through the whole process, taking your dream, wish, goal, what you want to do, be and have but in a way that's different from what you may have done before. This could have been a two-part episode but I wanted to take you through from start to fi

Creating Your Reality - Do You Really? Or is it BS? There is a lot of BS spoken about how you create your reality BUT that doesn't mean it's BS - or does it? Let's dive into this and the deeper we go I think we'll find some things we can do to make this happen. You see there is a natural phenomenon to creating your reality, the life you are experiencing right now and if we, you and I, get to use it wisely and not haphazardly the next now could be really different. Now I know as usual I'm being a little vague and that's because this is primarily an auditory experience and that means pressing play and coming with me. That being said I know your time is precious, I'm so grateful you share it with me, and I think you will learn something valuable here if you are willing to invest in yourself - That's a given knowing why you're here. Go on then press play > and please share this episode with every contact you have in the Universe and I'm sure the Universe will reciprocate  :O) https://personaldevelopmentunplugged

Deliberately Finding Passion Creativity and Confidence Let's do it together In our last episode, I told the story of my stumbling into passion and now it's time to dive into how you can find your passion, along with creativity (you might not realize you have) and being confident in you and your adventure. So............... Whether it's that side hustle (I really don't like that word) or your career or hobby or simply to be interested and interesting or find that thing you want to learn that will light that fire you know is somewhere inside you I have some simple ways to have any of the above. Simple, "In Simplicity There Is Genius", easy in their application and all you have to do is apply them - not even all of these but why wouldn't you apply them all? Ensuring your success takes just a little effort and all you have to ask yourself is "IS THIS IMPORTANT TO ME?" "WOULD THIS BE OF VALUE?" Your passions are hiding in plain sight, they are whispered to you, they are in the intuitive feeling and all you have to

Another No More Fake Confirming what we know When you fake it until you make it - You're a Fake (With an upper case F) and it's good to know that it's not just us who believe this and we, you and I, are on the right track. Faking will never make you authentic, congruent, and the Real you. You know it and also everyone else knows it too! It's a five-minute Quickie podcast with a little bit of a punch - have a listen - press play >> and when you have please share, here's the link to use: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-346-another-no-more-fake/ 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

Accidently finding Passion and purpose Sometimes you have to look back to see it in your future In this episode, I will share with you a couple of personal stories that I shared with my son's Mind Mastery group on a live call. Purpose and passion can be hiding in plain sight and are signposted in your past and just sometimes we get prompted to look from the unexpected. It's only when we do, look back at the adventure we call life, that we can experience what we have been searching for is and has been here all along and we're just too wrapped up in the distraction of the noise. I hope as you listen to these stories things are triggered off in your own mind and thoughts and that you can see what next steps to take or where to look deeper. When you do please let me know what you discovered and where you plan to take that passion and maybe you will let me share that with others in this podcast so as to inspire many others. Talking of sharing as always I ask will you share this episode to all your friends and mayb

And Breathe this really is a 5-minute quickie (podcast) A quick reminder You can do without food for a while You can do without water a little less But without air you're  ****** That's it for your description When you've listened please share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-345-and-breathe/ 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-react on twitter @pcloughie Why not

Wakey Wakey!! Living the Dream? Are you living the dream or are you the dreamer or are you in the dream or are you napping? When you really think about those questions it makes your head spin and you realize you really should wake up. A friend of my son Joesph, Tim Freake (a stand-up philosopher - what a great job and a great name!) gave me a copy of his book 'Lucid Living' a long time ago and as usual hearing things on podcasts and writing in my journal  I cam up with this episode. I've reminded myself to wake up, to keep waking up and I'd like you to consider it too. Even just musing this will start the process of nudging you awake and begin creating. Maybe it's all the noise that's like a lullaby to distract you from who you are and what you're capable of and being. So it's up to you to decide to get the attitude of living, set your intention to wake up and do - BE! But how do you do this? Have a listen and I'll share my thoughts on the how. Please share this episode and help others to wake up too. Here's

The How-To to Tackle Overwhelm Enter into the world of being 'in a pickle' - 'pickledom' or in other words, overwhelm And the most important thing in this five-minute quickie is in the HOW, the how-to to tackle overwhelm or more specifically stop it when it happens. When you do this a couple of times we create a habit, a good habit,  a good behavior which then makes ripples of change. It's short and sweet so no excuses not to listen or use what you hear Have fun and share: https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq_344-_unplug_and_reboot/ 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 Sup

How to really Learn - the Only way to Learn And no one tells you I know it's a big statement and I do believe it's true and not a 'clickbait' When you understand this and follow the only way to learn then success will come knocking at your door and when you go through it you'll learn some more and the loop continues. Would the above be important to you and being able to enter into the world of 'Mastery' - Doing what you know and knowing what you do - and then learn and do more. You see learning is not knowing, let's explore that and let me tell you my experience of that big time. Obviously, this is a podcast, an auditory experience, so come with me and press play then let me what you learned and please share what you learned with others because it'll set the learnings even deeper and please share this episode so others may learn - the only way to learn https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/254-how-to-really-learn-the-only-way-to-learn Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me

So why the F**k Bother? But I think you will There's so much in this episode, so much more than Anxiety to Confidence that I think will get you from not just thinking about this to excelling in every area of your life - Bold statement Cloughie! But first we, well I, need to be shocked. Because the more you do, the more you learn, you will never be enough or know enough. So that general belief that I hear so often in the clinic "I'm not enough" is the most inspiring belief to have -WHAT!!!!!!!!????????? And we can also be inspired by the words DREAM, CREATE, EXCEL even though it will never be as good as it can be, could be - You can always do better. So why bother? Come with me to explore why we should, why I should and why you may want to. And let's explore if you could never get any better because you're the best you can be, you have learned all there is to learn. what would that be like?  B**ring! Hey, as we dive into this I'll also show you how even feeling good from a good memory how we can make that feel

Who's listening To You? You may be surprised. This is a whopper of an episode in the amount of not only golden nuggets but silver and bronze ones tooo! How would you, do you help your best friend(s)? You're always there for them and support them. Or do you? Because you have a best friend, we all do and they're better than every other friend(s) you have on the outside and despite how you treat them they are always there, doing more than you can imagine - just for you alone. The thing is we would never treat those external best friend(s) like you do to this best friend. The thing is when you really connect, inside, and connect in communicating what you want, things happen like magic. You see you have to know that whatever you think about most of the time is what you get, whether you like it or not. This generally creates anxiety, fear, low-self esteem, and unconfidence as your best friend attempts to protect you from those things by using the power of your imagination. So let's dive deeper into how we can think