2013 - My Definiteness of Purpose!

Happy New Year my friends!!!!! :)

This blog was all about reading and how books can change your life!  Well the books that I have read this month have already changed my life!  The theme from the first books has been "Definiteness of Purpose".   They ask, "What do you really want?" "What is the purpose of your life?  Who do you want to become & Contribute?" What is your Definite Chief Aim in life Professionally?
By the end of December I started to think and really emotionally connect to my True Vision.

I want to take you through a little bit of my past story all the way up to the present moment to reveal my Definite Chief Purpose going into 2013!


My Story & Revelation

Back in early 2008 I spend a week in a (Billye Brim Ministries) Prayer Cabin in Branson, Missouri.  I arrived there with a Journal, no food, and no distractions.  I had just lost my job and I was 28 years of age and never had peace of mind about my "Definiteness of Purpose" in life!  How was I going to Impact others in an authentic and powerful way?  How could I make a $$ living doing so?

I had many great influences in my life with inspirational mentors in the area of compassion/ministry, promoting physical health, personal development and mental growth, and business....  but was in a rut for most of my 20's.  I didn't know my purpose.

That week in that Cabin changed my life forever!!!  I was finally not confused about my Destiny and Purpose Professionally!  I knew my life was about Compassion and Health!  I wanted to become a Missionary that could spend 1/2 the year in missions/ministry inspired by my 2007 experience with TL Osborn, etc..

Professionally I came out with vision to be a Health & Fitness Coach, Teacher, and Entrepreneur!
From age 16-24 I developed a tremendous Passion for Health inspired by Arnold S., my own personal health problems like acne, The Body For Life Program, Tony Robbins, Paul Bragg, and others.
I wanted to make $250,000/year working just 1/2 the year as a health coaching Entrepreneur, therefore funding my Missions!
After that week if anymore asked me what I do for a living, I would tell them, "I AM a Missionary and Health/Fitness Teacher/Entrepreneur!!!

When I got home from that week things just started flowing for me!  I moved to Tulsa to change my environment, I achieved Peak Physical Health though running, yoga, and raw juicing.  I then gained 23 lbs of muscular bulk in 30 days by eating quality meats, raw milk, weekly fasting, and weight training.  I had great personal health and fitness.  I studied, got certified as a personal trainer, and even began some wonderful new relationships.

I got a Job at Akins health store.  I felt like things were just flowing for good! I worked there with intent to use my personal time to launch out in an independent business of wellness coaching and health seminars, and with my dream of missions still alive.  After a year and a half working I learned much about nutrition, vitamins, and teaching health.
But I was also frustrated!  The Job became a Job!  The people I hung out with at work did not make for the most positive inspiring environment. I was tired of being broke and was challenged at how to help people change their lifestyle into one of Peak Energy, Vibrant Health, and Physical Fitness.  You try to get an adult male to eat vegetables! :)

After a year and a half, I felt like God really intervened by bringing me Enagic and Kangen Water™!  Most of you reading know my story with that.  I got SO excited about E & KW being the vehicle to launch my dreams of first dramatically helping people as a health & fitness teacher/entrepreneur and creating the $$ freedom to be a missionary!  Just ask my Mom, Tamara, or Michelle what I was like back then in December of 2009!  I was On Fire, Bold, Passionate, Grateful, and had a heavy Compassion to Spread Health to others Empowered by Kangen Water™ & Enagic Biz!

Now 3 years later (or almost 6 years after my Cabin experience) I feel like God has come though for me once again!  I feel my Passion being unleashed like it was in that Cabin and like the month I discovered Enagic & Kangen Water™!  I feel like God tried to get through to me over the last 3 years, I mentally understood, but now I got it in my heart!  He is kangenizing my Life (Return to Origin).  Basically he is calling me to just be myself, 100% authentic, and live out my greatest Passion, Dreams, & Calling!


So overall, what is changing?  What will be my focus?

First of all, my Mission is clear:  Spread True Health with Compassion Globally, One Family at a time!!!  True health means first physical, second mental, and third financial health.

I am committing myself to 2-3 months of Mission Trips this year!  Thankfully I have the finances already for these trips.  I also want my daily lifestyle to be one of Compassion!

People who really know me like my mom know that I have a true Passion for Peak Health, Pure Energy, & Physical Transformation!  I have already gone into this new year walking, doing yoga, lifting weights, and already feel more like myself!  I am just about to purchase a new bike, and already got a cellerciser (an expensive mini trampoline)!

My Identity of how I will personally & professionally help people is clear:  Redeeming Love Missionary, and Health/Fitness coach teacher & entrepreneur!  It will naturally flow into a little bit of life coaching or therapeutic interventions like Tony Robbins....

I am radically changing how I look at my Professional Life!  I am going to operate out of my passion of Health & Fitness coaching, teaching, and motivating!  My belief & passion for Enagic/KangenWater™ shall be unleashed fully like it was in my first 90 days b/c I will not operate solely as an Enagic Distributor anymore.  My core Identity will be out of the Compassion and Helping people with health.



What are the SPECIFICS?  Michael's Manifesto???

Personally & Ministry


FIRST - I am not delaying anymore Missions!  I am Financially Committing to trips now, and Plan to spend 2-3 months in 2013 out of the Country on Missions.  1/2 of My mission trips will be Kangen Missions, donating machines, and seeing the power of Kangen Water™ work in areas where people need it the most!  My focus will be to serve, to be with people, to feel their pain, and to meet any needs they have!  I want to see Miracles of healing physically/emotionally.  Next year I plan to spend 3-4 + months.  I will ask friends to go with me on some of these trips!

I am going to bring this Compassion lifestyle home to my daily life over time!  Personally, I will do some bible studies, but especially get a group of friends together and expectantly/prayerfully "Go Ye Therefore into the world..." find people that are lonely, hurting physically or emotionally, and share the Love of Christ evidenced by Miracles!

I am going to create an environment where people (inside or outside of my Kangen Team) can get around me more and learn with me this lifestyle of True Health!

I am going to live an active lifestyle physically!  I will create my Dream Body that is a Palace of Pleasure!  I'll enjoy walking, hiking, running, biking, dancing, lots of yoga, weight lifting, and lots of fun sports like basketball.  I think it would be fun becoming a Chef!  I can invite friends to homemade tasty and healthy Dinner!  I am going to be very social.  I am going to make new friends, and include old friends and team members on these physical adventures!  I am Not going to be so serious!  I am going to be a human being, an Artist :), active & energetic, helping others, and trusting God!  

Oh yeah, did I mention that I am going to be learning some new "Artistic Hobbies"?   Chef, Dance, Guitar, and Writing are a few of my ideas so far!  Yes, I am unleashing the Artist within me!  Hey!  I am a single guy with a lot of free time, I am going to have maximum fun !  Don't laugh, I am serious! :) These Artistic skills will serve me in Professional, Personal, & Missions lifestyle!



Business / Enagic / Professional


I will still attend and host many Enagic Meetings, build business, help team, but my perspective, my heart, and my personal & professionally Identity will be radically different!  I will be Passionate!!!!  I will support Enagic Distributors to Build their business however they see fit!  In fact I am about to take www.hagenteamresources.com to a professional easy to read website that will absolutely be the best Enagic resource in the country for helping people be equipped to succeed!

Kangen Health Parties and Kangen Health Seminars.  It would take too long to explain here but I believe these ideas will create tremendous Value for all who attend!  This is just one example of the many ideas that would outflow from being a Health Crusader dude w/ backing of Kangen. It would be easier to show you than tell you what I envision!  But I am EXCITED!!! :)  My mom is excited and anyone I am explaining it to is excited!  These events will do the following:

• Support the improvement of the personal physical (even emotional) Health of my friends - inside/outside of Enagic.
• Create an environment for others with the desire to learn about health, make changes, and even become a Contributor... coaching & teaching others to True Health!  
• (My vision almost 6 years ago in that Cabin was to have week long Certification Courses - Wellness Coach!  This would not be for everyone but the speed in which a normal person could transform their personal body and lifestyle, AND learn how to Professional Help Change others lives would be astounding!)
• Allow me to be fully myself and others like me... Fully teach the whole story about Health!  Not selling of other MLMs or anything that could distract people from Kangen but maybe sell a few things that support the mission!
• Be able to keep old contacts, old prospects, old customers, and inactive biz builders around the team...  excited about the water again, and to coach these people to Full Health & Happiness...    and to enroll some of them again back into this amazing Mission! For those on my team wanting to make $$, these events will allow us to sell more Anespa, Kangen Machines, recruit new people, and get people on Ukon.  But That will just be an outflow of the goal to promote health!
• I already got my first one tentatively scheduled in Texas and am about to setup a Tulsa one! You will be blown away!
• I want it to evolve into our version of "Body for Life" !

My focus will be much less on selling machines; but I believe sales will flow in abundance out of my newfound compassion, passion, and energy to spread health.

I will do wellness coaching, give health lectures at businesses, churches, and all kinds of groups as my originally vision was. Of course I will sell kangen machines and recruit people into the biz... but that won't by my objective... it will be to Spread True Health w/ Compassion...     I will get on the radio or tv...   and I will teach others who want to how to become a Compassion health "professional" in less time than they though was imaginable!

I will still Passionately Share the Enagic Biz Opportunity... but I believe I will be 3x more effective and persuasive!  I will be Living a Dream Life of Physical Activity, Social Play, Missions/Traveling, Health Spreading, and have a BOLDNESS to Invite people to experience this lifestyle of Love, Happiness, Physical Vibrantcy, Social Fun, Impact, & True $$$ Freedom!

I am going to take lots of pressure off me in terms of "Business Mentoring" / helping my team/friends experience the financial freedom rewards of Enagic.  My first focus is to help them be healthy, happy, and active in spreading true health w/ compassion... and to grow at their own speed.  I will also do Leadership events to let people who are very ambitious to be able to grow at the fastest speeds.

I may decline some opportunities within Enagic in terms of training, recognition, etc...   My Enagic Biz will not be my primary opportunity... though I believe naturally my team will explode as long as money, recognition, biz team growth #'s, or even scale (#'s) of Impact doesn't become a Priority!

Overall Vision

I told God I give the business to him.   My dream of filling a coliseum is great but I am going to focus on the quality of how well I can help each person, and let God take care of the quantity!

By branding myself beyond Enagic, I expect to get into doors that a "distributor" can't get into!  I want to Passionately spread health personally!  

My focus will be on Depth of Leadership - how well can I help improve the quality of life, health, happiness, & prosperity of each individual family... VS Scale/Breadth of Leadership, which is focusing on Quantity of People that I can help!  I will let Let God fill a Colliseum through me if he wants to, but I am just going to focus on living a vibrantly health & happy lifestyle that Makes life better for the person in front of me!  In terms of Quantity of people... I more envision a "Movement of Compassion" being created, and a "Revolution in True Health"  hit America!  But I will do my best to Let God be God and make those things happen!

Enagic isn't my main focus... the Mission Statement it proclaims will be b/c its always been mine as well!  I bet my Enagic biz and team will prosper like never before... I am just excited that My Enagic Team will absolutely be the most happiest, healthiest, physically & emotionally fit, social, and Compassion people on the earth!  We will be the most unified and free as well!  Yes, we will have many financial free, and ALL will be valued as family!


I have always dreamed of a Dream Team that inspires people to live an extraordinary life!  I want people who come into association with me and my friends to have Greatness awakened within them!  Many will become leading Enagic Distributors, some master sales people, Network Marketers, and Business Entrepreneurs.  I can see Compassion Entrepreneurs attracted to Enagic and our team because I see the economic impact of introducing the KW technology to the world! I envision millions and billions of dollars going towards great causes because of the financial success people have.
I want to inspire many to become compassionate ministers of the Gospel.  I want our team/movement to inspire many health professionals and entrepreneurs empowered by Kangen Water™:  Chef's, Restaurant Owners, Doctors, Chiropractors, Personal Trainers, Wellness Coaches, Product Inventors, and Health Educators.

I don't have time to share all the details, but honestly it will be a lot easier to show you rather than tell you!  In summary, as much as my heart is desiring radical change in my life, my heart is loyal to the friends on my Kangen Team.  I feel peace about me going after my personal dreams so much more b/c I now clearly see that my presence, example, and more balanced focus will create an atmosphere where YOU can be free to be yourself, the best version of yourself!  I also believe that my new lifestyle will create an environment that is conducive to people being happy, healthy, and create financial freedom!

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Make it Happen in 2013!!!

With Love,

Michael Hagen

PS - as far as this blog goes???

First I realized that some of the books I am going to read this year are really private and I don't want to share with the world!  Obviously the first 1/2 dozen books I have read have already helped me tremendously to re-focus.  I think my goal will be to read at least a 100 books and if 365 happen I will be one smart dude!  I am still deciding how many I will blog, but for now I will keep this website going!

Reading Update!

Hello Friends!

I have read 3 new books lately.  One is a book called Self-Love by Robert Schueller, another called Backbone: The Power of Saying No, and the last is a Classic book by Napoleon Hill.

I should have the blog post up on these new books by sunday.  They were amazing, especially the Napoleon Hill one!

I am so glad I get to use this december to create a head start towards reading a book a day in 2013.  This will be very challenging but I believe the rewards will be beyond even my current imagination.


Here is a sample of some of the things I have noticed since starting to voraciously read!

• I don't have time to worry!  By filling in my idle time with books, it really changes my thought patterns.
• My perception of the world is changing and expanding!  I think when I don't read, my thoughts get locked into a rut of repetively thinking the same old thoughts over and over again.  It seems that when I pick up a book, I can think through another's thoughts!  It really breaks my patterns and get me THINKING again consciously!  I can see how as I continue to read, it will be like the Matrix Movie - a whole new world shall open up to me - reality!
• It seems that as soon as I read a book, I start to notice its subject pop up all over the place!  For example, after reading the book called "Backbone: The Power of Saying No" which also talks about making requests, and speaking authentically... my eyes are enlightened to the many times every day when myself or others DO or DON'T have backbone.  In other words, when I put down the book, my reading has not ended, it only begins!  What I begin by reading, I must finish by living!
• I have also noticed that I am more interested in people, and the conversations are more interesting!  Today I had a lunch appointment and my mind felt so alive, and it made for stimulating two way conversation full of ideas.
• Also, even though its only been a week or two, It seems that this habit will indeed be an amazing healthy replacement to bad/neutral habits of "distraction" like facebook, internet surfing, espn, etc...       I am also finding overall that I am wasting less time!  I know that every minute counts if I am going to read even 1/2 a book a day, nevertheless a book a day!

Another note, I am being led (By God spirit in me :)) in terms of how I read each book.  Some books I am going to just read one time in one day, and never reread the book again.  On the other hand, some books that seem to be classics I am really intending to master!  

For example, this last Napoleon Hill book - I read it in one day!  But the last few days I have been going back over my highlights and notes, and really letting the key thoughts soak in through mediation!

Also, I purchased two new awesome reading chairs from Mathis Brothers yesterday that have arrived today!  

SO EXCITED!

God Bless!

Read and Grow Rich!!!

Michael Hagen

1. The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale - my first book!!!!

Ok last night I finished my first book!  This morning I also listened to the audio version of the same message!

Wow!

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale - what a classic this is!

Yes, its a short book!  I need to read some short books in the beginning to build momentum!


Here is my book summary and bullet point notes:

This book was the First motivational spoken word album to sell 1 million copies.  It definitely paved the way for people like Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins to follow afterwards.

The message of this book is both so simple yet so powerful.  Honestly, I don't know of a better 30min read than this book or audio.

I will do the 30 day challenge and I believe it will absolutely change my life.

I think the biggest thing I learned from reading the book is that I am incredibly powerful by using and directing the power of my focus/thoughts.  Its amazing to realize that everyday I am attracting my life circumstances by my thoughts.  Like Norman Vincent Peale was quoted, "Positive Thoughts will achieve Positive Results."

I do acknowledge that this book is almost useless or destructive without application.  So for the rest of this month I will "become what I think about" CONSCIOUSLY!

• The opposite of courage is our society is not cowardness, it is conformity.
• We get all busy competing with others.... really there is very little competition... we just need to focus on Creating... and we will be in a league of our own.
• Marcus Aurelius said, "A Man's life is what his thoughts make of it"
• This quote by Williams James becomes more and more powerful to me as I meditate on it: "We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question was real and it will become infallibly real by growing into such connection with our life that it will become real.  It will become so knit with habit & emotion that our interest in it will be those which characterize belief."
• Mark 9:23 Jesus taught, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."
• Peale - "... if you think in negative terms, you'll get negative results.  If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results."
• The Mind is like a Farm Land... it will return what you Plant.  Thoughts are like seeds.
• People don't tend to value your consciously & gratefully utilize things like their mind....   why?  B/c it is free, we were born with it.   But this is sad b/c the great truth is that all truly valuable things in this life are free and equal to all.  Ex:  Mind, Body, True Love, etc...

6 Tips from Dr. Fink, a top psychiatrist M.D. 

1. Set a definite Goal (to direct "you become what you think about")
2. Quit Running yourself Down
3. Stop thinking of reasons why you can't, and start thinking of reasons why you can achieve something.
4. Trace back things to your childhood....  become aware & break limiting patterns
5. Write on a piece of paper the Image of yourself that you want.
6. Act that part Now!

Implementation Plan:

I already made a notecard that summarizes the key thoughts.  My action plan is to do what it says!  For the rest of this month of December, multiple times per day, I am going to review the notes, but especially stop to apply "We become what we think about".  I wrote down my primary purpose in life, and my primary goal... I put it in a mission statement form, and I even wrote memory triggers of times in my life when I was living the way I want to live fully.  Each day I will stop for 5-10min and Picture in my minds eye myself being and living this desired way.  I will let myself feel the joy and success of living my dream life.  I will see myself constantly growing and improving, and living in this desired outcome.

I actually went for a walk and really thought about the 30 day challenge.  On a future blog entry I may share some of the person Definite Purpose I set for myself. :)

My Kangen Booklist - Top Books!

Here is a summary of the CLASSICS that I am going to read each multiple times in 2013!!!!!

Top Recommended Books for Your Kangen™ Journey to Freedom!

Charles “Tremendous” Jones has a famous quote that reads,
“You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read.”

These books will educate and equip you to become a Leader in the Enagic Mission of spreading true health globally with Compassion, one family at a time! Physical, Mental, & Financial Health!

These books have been cover it all: the water, physical health, belief in Enagic, inspiration, attitude, self-esteem, success mindset, networking, people skill, sales, wealth mentality, network marketing, compassion, and leadership.

Best of all, they are entertaining and easy to read!!! Many of them you can read in less than a couple hours! Read these books over & over again!!

Ask your active growing upline mentor which books YOU should read next!!!! 

These books are Prioritized!

1. Ride the Wave (www.6atools.com)
Perfect Introduction into Enagic Biz Opportunity!

2. Live The Dream - by Larry Winters
Ultimate Rags to Riches Story that will encourage, inspire, & teach you to win!

3. Magic of Thinking Big
#1 selling book in network marketing industry history! Change Your Life!

4. Reverse Aging by Sang Wang
Major Belief Builder in the water: science + testimonials

5. Acres of Diamonds
Classic from 100 years ago, very brief read! Wealth Mentality!

6. The Go Getter and Go For No!
An Old and New Classic to make you unstoppable!!! Two Very Brief Story Books!

7. The Choice by Og Mandino
Easy to read inspirational classic from Mega Best Selling Author!

8. How to Win Friends and Influence People (Or “in the digital age”) #1 all-time classic on human relations. New version for Social Media.

9. Enzyme Factor by Dr. Shinya (#1 Doctor of Longest Living People)

Credibility of Kangen WaterTM, and learn principles of Peak Health Lifestyle! 

10. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling
Classic book on salesmanship from the 1940’s, leave you excited to sell! 

11. Travelers Gift by Andy Andrews
Andy Andrews is the NEW Og Mandino! Inspirational Story! 

12. Your First Year in Network Marketing
MLM Classic! Enagic is not mlm so just catch the key message of this book! 

13. Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
The mega-best-seller from the Father of American Success Literature! 

14. How to start a conversation and make friends
Learn how to never run out of people to share the water/opportunity with! 

15. Bringing Out The Best in People
Classic on helping your family, friends, & Kangen Team to Excel!!! 

16. The Pursuit by Dexter Yager
Book by the #1 network marketer in history, FULL of Nuggets! 

17. Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins
Be coached for peak life living by the Leader called upon by Leaders! 

18. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
Learn to APPLY success principles from one of top leaders in networking! 

19. Building Powerful Nerve Force by Paul C. Bragg
Learn secrets of vibrant health from the mentor of the great Jack Lalanne! 

20. Destined to Reign by Joseph Prince
Unleash your belief for God’s unmerited favor & live a blessed life! 

21. Personality Plus
Learn to influence yourself & others by understanding the 4 basic personalities! 

22. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Kiyosaki
Wealth Mentality! Do you think like an employee or Biz Owner? 

23. Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard
Do you just sell machines or do you create Raving Fans? 

24. Referral of a Lifetime by Tim Templeton
Entertaining Story that can change your entire business! 

25. Living Loved, Living Free by Connie Witter
A spiritual book that will transform your self-esteem & life! 

26. Wooden on Leadership
Perhaps the Greatest Coach in Sports History: Build your winning team!!! 

27. Read for you Life by Williams
Inspire the habit of lifetime voracious reading and learning!
Bonus:

• Autobiography’s: Tim Tebow, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln,
• Leadership Books: All John Maxwell books, Martin Luther King on Leadership,
Coach K,
• More Robert Kiyosaki: Cashflow Quadrant, and YouTube videos

• More Napoleon Hill: Law of Success
• www.tonyrobbins.com CDs: Living Health, Ultimate Edge, Influence
• www.executivebooks.com - As a Man Thinketh, Books are tremendous, & other
mini-books! These are books you can give out to others, inexpensive, and powerful!

Order Books @
www.amazon.com
Book Stores

Consider getting a basic Kindle (less than $100) & a case that has reading lamp built in. You can preview books, buy books inexpensively, underline key passages, add notes, and have all your books with you where you go!

Follow @MichaelHagen2 on Twitter to see these books in action!
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Napoleon Hill In His Own Voice. 1960’s...
10 hours of content for $3-10
This is best financial investment you may ever make!!!
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My 2013 Challenge

Read a book a day in 2013??

Really???

Yes!  I am going to read a book per day in 2013!  That means I am going to read over 365 books in 2013!

I am going to cheat only a bit - how?  I am going to start now in December of 2012!  I am going to get a head start!  That way I can survive the first month even though I am a slow reader.  I will learn to speed read though and will make it through the rest of the year!


What am I going to read? 

Well, 365 books is a lot of books so I will read anything and everything to a certain degree.

I am going to really Master Read the books on my Kangen™ Hagen Team Book List!  These are about 25-50 books that are classics!
I am going to read a lot of people skills, relationships, compassion, and spirituality.
I am going to read Classic Literature and books to expand my vocabulary and world!
I am going to read Novels.
I will pour through the great biographies of leaders before me.
I already have 1000 books in my home library and on my kindle that I have not yet truly read or mastered!  It will be easy to do this!


The Specifics?

Here is the basic plan:

I am going to not just read, I am going to listen to audios, attend seminars, interview positive role models, and the core of my learn lifestyle will be to read!  I may journal on here about other things, but learning and reading will be the central topic.

The Rules are:

• If its a Novel or Fiction book, I just need to have read and finished it.
• If its a self help book I need to have showed that I have really received out of it.  I need to underline key statements, add comments on the book or on kindle, keep book journals to capture thoughts, and I need to create a blog summary of the book of what I learned from it.  The goal is not to just read the book... the good is to be changed by each book.  I want to read, apply, meditate, and really master each key book!  I will also probably post audio mp3 book summaries over time.
• For the top 20 books I want to absolutely MASTER them!  I will read each of the top 20 books about 3-4 times each this year!
• By the end of this year, someone could look at my kindle and book library (open up books, see my highlights & notes) and read my blog website and know that I have mastered these books.
• I will read daily.  Some days I may read two books a day...   but my absolute minimum is to read at least one page everyday!  But my overall goal will be to read 1/2 a book a day in december, and then a book a day after that!

Why I am inspired to do this crazy task?

Here are a few of the reasons why I really want to do this!

• I have always loved books and believed in the power of books to expand a person's thinking, and to create growth.  It's just that I feel I have never yet until now fully taken advantage of the amazing books I have and the ability I have to read them.  
• I just organized my library - I have amazing books but I can't say I have read them all!
• I want to energize and feed my mind.
• I want to grow physically, mentally, spiritually, in relationships, in skills, in business, and in impact!  Books can help me get there!
• I just know that after even a week or month.. nevertheless a year... my entire thinking will be transformed and so will my emotional patterns and my life!
• I get distracted easy and sometimes these distractions are not healthy or empowering.  I want an activity to fill in my free time or even be a healthy distraction!  I want to read and grow for pleasure... not just work!
• I believe my business will absolutely explode in the process!  I don't think my profession as a health/fitness entrepreneur requires me to work doing presentations, talking, etc... more than 15 hours per week.  I think the key is to be full of passion, belief, energy, ideas, resources, knowledge, skills, character, compassion, people skill, positive attitude and emotion, and to act out of my potential!   
• I want to set the example for my friends and team!  We have a calling, opportunity, and assignment to become the Leaders necessary to lead a movement in true health... a movement in compassion through Kangen Water™.  It can be intimidating to think about needing to become a great leader until I remember that books are like the clay used to form amazing masterful leaders!
• I have read books like Read and Grow Rich, and Read for Your Life!  They have inspired me in the past to read voraciously, but now I want it even more!
• My key motivation is just to create new thoughts, change, and variety in my life!  I don't want to think the thoughts of yesterday, I want new and better thoughts!

How am I going to pull this off?  How will I find or make time?

I think I just want a challenge that relates to self-improvement!  If I were to count the hours from 2010, 2011, and 2012 - I really already have the time.  I have spend an average of 3-5 hours per day surfing the net, on sports websites, reading something, watching videos, and especially being on Facebook!
I am just going to take that time and direct it to reading!

Plus, I believe I will get so much new mental emotional energy that I will require less sleep!

So basically I am going to take facebook time, internet surfing time, and excess sleep time.... and just switch it over!  It will be EASY once the habits are changed around!

Because of the Blessing of my Enagic Kangen Water™ Business mhagen.yourbodyiswater.info I don't have a job and I have way more free time than most people with a passive income stream from a wonderful health team!

My plan is to read constantly!  I am going to read every free moment I have.  I am going to read while eating, exercising, waiting, before bed, while shaving, etc....

I will read about 15 books in december which will get my mental muscles strong, get my reading speed up, and give me a head start!

My standard will be to stay ahead!  That means that if I am on day 90 of the year, I will have read over 90 books already!  I will not fall behind!