It seems only fitting that my 100th post on Buzzing with Ange is to share with you my greatest personal challenge to date. Seeing as this blog is about personal development, it is important that I let you in on how my journey is progressing and some of the challenges that I take on. I am involved with a fitness group who have organised to trek the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea in June of this year.

For Australians, this is the setting of an extremely difficult time during World War II where we lost the most number of diggers - 6000, in the shortest space of time - 7 months. The Aussie soldiers held the Japanese back from taking Port Moresby by land, retreating many times and firing back to exhaust the Japanese soldiers into re-thinking their strategy which saw them file back to the Northern part of the Island.

The Kokada Trail is a single file footpath that stretches for 96 kilometres (about 60 miles) in a north/south direction, straight across the Owen Stanley ranges in Papua New Guinea. My good Aussie mate Allan and I will be combining our efforts to bring you some history of the Kokoda Trail, along with the training I am undertaking and most importantly, the mindset behind taking on such a feat.

This is not a decision I made lightly and for those that know me on a personal level would know that I am not the kind of girl to get my hands dirty, camping and hiking in the outback is not something I do on a regular basis as I am a creature of comforts and I really, really like hot showers, clean toilets, meals cooked in a clean kitchen and a comfy bed with a cozy doona/comforter to snuggle into. So, do you think I am going to have to have a paradigm shift in order to get through this challenge and change my mindset around creature comforts? I think it will open up new possibilities for me in the way I perceive things, and I will definitely be in need of a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel on this trip.


Kokoda Memorial 1000 Steps

Saturday just gone was our first official training day as a group and I was whisked off to the Dandenong Ranges here in Melbourne to climb the 1000 steps which are part of the Kokoda memorial. I didn’t count them as I was too busy trying to catch my breath. I have plenty of work to do on my fitness level in preparation for this adventure so stick with me and I will give updates on my progress.

I will leave you with a sample of what I am to expect once we land in Port Moresby… tell me your thoughts and if someone here has already taken this challenge on, please share your experience. There are many expeditions organised on regular basis through various companies.

Kurek Ashley had many roles in the movies as the bad guy so he is not well remembered because let’s face it… who remembers the bad guy. I met Kurek just over one year ago at Nik Halik’s Money Masters seminar here in Melbourne. Kurek has worked with John Travolta, Sylvester Stalone and Russell Crowe, to name a few.

Today I listened to Sarah Wilson from Adventure Coaching interview Kurek live and his story is amazing. During his acting career, while working in Asia on the movie Delta Force 2 with Chuck Norris, there was a helicopter crash in which five of his friends were killed. His best friend died in his arms on the way to hospital. Just prior to the tragic loss of lives, Kurek himself had been in that same helicopter as 20 takes were rehearsed and filmed. You can maybe only begin to imagine how that made him feel.

After that incident, Kurek turned to using recreational drugs, drinking alcohol, violence and multiple attempts at suicide. Every day he held a .38 claibre revolver to his head in order to end the pain he was feeling until three years later, he made a decision. A decision where he chose to put an end to the destructive lifestyle he was living. He turned his life around by quitting the drugs and alcohol and reading self-help books, using affirmations with purpose and not long after this, he was running seminars in the US.


Life Success Coach

Today, Kurek is a Life Success Coach and holds the world record for the longest fire walk ever being 81 metres in length. In his interview, Kurek said that he is very efficient and that he fits everything in. The powerful tool with which he uses to manage this is his brain.

If your brain picks up that you are happy with your life, you will achieve more results. Feeling grateful for what you already have in your life is equal to love, and feeling the love attracts more love to you.

Once you have a thought, put it into action immediately as once you put things on the back-burner, it loses it’s urgency. You must also be willing to DO what the average person is not willing to do and even though today could be the worst day in your life, for someone else, it may be the best day in their lives, if they happen to be having the same kind of day as you!

Kurek uses affirmations like

I am Fortunate

I am Successful

I am Grateful

These are very simple to remember and you could use these easily throughout your day. Say them out loud like you mean it and notice the difference it makes to the way you feel.

Kurek also coached the Australian Womens Volleyball team to win Gold in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. At one seminar he ran, Natalie Cook was sitting in his audience and Kurek suggested that nobody would buy a book from the athlete that won the bronze medal. So after the seminar was over, Natalie walked up to him and said…

I stood on the third box… and I know you have the tools to help me win Gold.

So with that, Kurek coached Natalie Cook and Kerri Ann Pottharst for two and a half years to go on and win that Gold Medal here in Australia on their home soil.

Moral of the Story

With this little knowledge I have given you here, my wish is for you to see that anything is possible. You do not need to go through a state of depression like Kurek did and lead a self destructive lifestyle in order to find the answers within which will give your life’s purpose. Rather, we each have our own little demons and voices in our heads which pop up from time to time and if we listen to these voices and let them take control of our lives, we end up down in the dumps.

Brainstorming to find the things you are passionate about and and writing down a list of goals you want to achieve, broken down into baby steps will give you the desire to do the things that need to be done and once you can work efficiently, you will achieve the results you want to achieve.

Tell me how you deal with the voices in your head. Do you listen to them? Do you let them take over? If not, what steps have you taken to take control of your life? Feel free to share.

Dedicated to Success

A little over a year ago I was searching for a way out of the rat race. Seeing as though I had a couple of kids and wanted to be able to be home for them and still contribute to the household in a financial way, the search seriously began for a business run from home and I don’t mean just any business as I have tried different ones in the past but was never passionate about them as much as the one I am now going to tell you about.


Jamie McIntyre

I met this guy at a seminar I attended and in searching for his website on the Internet, I came across Jamie McIntyre and it wasn’t long before I met Jamie McIntyre at his own seminars. What an eye opener this guy was and still is now. Apart from the fact that he became a self-made millionaire while still in his twenties from various business ideas, he is sharing his wealth creation strategies with you and me.

The strategies that he presents in his giveaway wealth DVD are simple yet they do take discipline to fully grasp and apply them. Within one month of undertaking his homestudy program, I was flying off to an Internet seminar on the Gold Coast of Australia. As soon as I arrived home I was already constructing my very first website from the information absorbed.

Jamie has taught me not only how to earn an income from working on the Internet, but I have also studied the Business strategies, the Stock Market strategies he teaches and various Property Investing strategies. These are all opportunities that have come my way since meeting Jamie McIntyre and all opportunities that I can work at in my own time where I do not have to set off for work everyday and combat the peak hour traffic and put up with complaining co-workers and the list goes on.

21st Century Academy

Jamie co-founded the 21st Century Academy for the sole purpose to educate as many people as he can with an education for life and so far has reached 225,000 Australians and New Zealanders with his gift.

Jamie McIntyre is passionate about ensuring the average person becomes financially educated. If you would like to learn how to excel in the 21st Century and create an extraordinary quality of life, including how to make money while you sleep, to free up your time to do other more important things than working 9 to 5, then read on as you may be surprised at just how much success people are having.

Andrew Dimitri

Andrew Dimitri, Scott Robertson and Bill Stacy, are three of 21st Century Academys most successful graduates. When they first did Jamies original Homestudy course they were all working 60 + hours per week in their jobs, but are now retired and self-made millionaires in their own right. All this in just 4 short years! Its been an amazing ride, Andrew says. “Jamie opened up our minds to things we didnt think were possible, and we have taken his teachings and created our own investment strategies for both the Stock Market and Property Investments, which have propelled us to wealth and a lifestyle we only dreamed of before!”

This is just one of the many testimonials you can find here from other graduates of the academy.

Emotional Intelligence

Since coming on board as a graduate myself I have not only found a way to learn how to create money while I sleep, but I have also learnt some Emotional Intelligence as Jamie calls it. This is a way of managing your emotions so that you can put yourself in a state that will best suit your needs at any given time. Responding rather than reacting is the key. Learn to think outside the box and you will be surprised at the new possibilities that you will see coming your way. Knowing this and doing this however are two different things. Learn to catch yourself as I have and let the moment pass and breath… and then respond rather than react. The more you practice this the better you get at it. Don’t make yourself wrong if you don’t get it right away, just know that you can look at any situation from a different angle.

Yours in Prosperity

Ange