While attending Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success Seminar 2010, I heard that sought-after business coach Jim Bunch would be speaking about transformational environment – how to create an ultimate life through our physical surroundings. I spotted him on a corner talking to some of the seminar staff. I knew this was one of those opportunities to apply my mentor’s Jack Canfield’s Success Principle which is “Ask, ask, ask.”
With confidence, I introduced myself and asked If I can interview him to share his wisdom. He instantly agreed and we did an impromptu interview during one of the breaks. He talked about creating our environment by design instead of by default. Here’s what he had to say:
According to him there are 9 different environments that we shoud understand and be consciously aware of 24/7. These are:
- The Nine Environments of You
Apart from being aware, Jim shared that it is important for us to assess and craft these environments to our advantage. To do this:
- Listen and be aware to each of the nine environments. Do they inspire or expire you?
- Assess your current ratings in each – is it good or can it still be improved?
- Establish or write down your “desired” action or changes you want to make.
- Identify the negative aspects of the environments that you want to delete.
- Identify what positive things or changes you want to add and act on them.
If we become more conscious of our environments, do the prescribed strategies above, and stick to our action plan, we can live an extraordinary and ultimate life.
Jim and I agreed on the fact that a lot of people go to seminars, get pumped up to transform, but go back to their same old life. In order to avoid self-help learnings from becoming shelf-help, Jim said that we need to consistently focus and act on three things, everyday:
- Towards happiness
- Towards health
- Towards wealth
Is it really possible for someone to be happy, healthy, wise? The big answer is YES! If you put happiness first, your health, and wealth will follow. They key is the awareness and recognition of what makes you happy, what makes you healthy, and wealth creation will follow as a result.
“Live life by design and not by default. Craft your environment because the right environments pull you into a bigger game or a bigger you,” Jim said.
- Me with Jim Bunch and Inga Canfield, wife of Jack Canfield
For more information please check Jim’s site http://www.ultimategameoflife.com Whew! I am glad I trusted my intuition. He is a man with a big heart, and I love his life philosophy!
