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Shane Krider is a highly successful entrepreneur and life coach who has been a constant student of leadership development and personal development for twenty years. His desire to learn how to increase business results propelled him into the world of personal development. It was within this sector that Shane found professional and personal success.
Shane started his first business at 26-years old, working as an independent sales agent in the travel industry. His drive, passion and natural entrepreneurial abilities saw him achieve momentous success and within just two years he’d become a self-made millionaire.
An avid entrepreneur, Shane is continually expanding on his success, utilizing his passion for personal development and talent for public speaking, to launch new business ventures. Krider’s interest in the human spirit led him to be the Executive Producer of five documentary films. One of which, Unbeaten, was shortlisted for an Oscar.
Krider greatly values his wife and three children, and loves the opportunities his success has brought them. Being able to constantly travel together, while maintaining his successful business is a fortunate lifestyle they enjoy.
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How to Find Happiness: Chasing Our Desires
Rachel & Shane Krider’s third episode of their personal development podcast teaches you how to find happiness. Below is a snippet of the podcast where Shane discusses how pain can drive you into vigilance and it’s important to use that drive to chase down our biggest desires.
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Relying on other people isn’t the best way to go, contrary to popular belief. That will drive us into vigilance. We’re driven into vigilance because of let downs, because of failures, because of things that we didn’t expect. That is irritating! We are forced to wake up.
It’s like somebody coming in at five o’clock in the morning, and you’re in the middle of the best dream you’ve ever had. You’re just happy. There’s a small part of you that knows you’re dreaming; it’s like that lucid time. So, somebody comes in and starts trying to wake you up. You know that someone’s trying to wake you up, but you want to stay dreaming, you want to stay happy, and it pisses you off. By the time they get you to wake, you’re flat pissed off.
You see, that’s like pain driving you into vigilance. It’s no good, and there are people that walk around for decades irritated as hell just wanting to be left alone, wanting to go back to sleep, want to go back to that comfort zone because they’re forcibly brought up to the level of vigilance.
The other side of it is the carrot. So what’s the carrot? Well, if you work at a job and they have a compensation plan, that’s the carrot. But that isn’t the only carrot. You know, as human beings, we have things that were naturally interested in it; we naturally gravitate towards. We have things that we feel motivated to do, things about the world we feel motivated to change. We find purpose in our lives, but usually, the purpose falls somewhere between reality, being able to do something constructive with it, make money, be successful, and a fairytale land. As a result of that, most of us get pretty serious. We end up doing what we think we’re supposed to do to try and create our success.
But the carrot sight is where we want to be. We want to create a path, a life, and a lifestyle for ourselves that has us on the path to chasing something that we desire. It starts with a small goal. But that small goal needs to fall into alignment with a much bigger picture. Once you achieve that small goal you’re going to be like one of the astronauts once they made it to the moon: what the hell else do you do after you accomplish that? They got a bit depressed after they came back.
We want to create a life; we want to create a bigger picture of upward spiraling success. That means that our goal achievement parlays upon itself. One thing leads to a bigger thing, which leads to a bigger thing and so on. What all of that adds up to is something that’s even bigger, better, more exciting.
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Shane Krider is a successful personal development life coach, producer, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Along with his wife, Shane is the co-host of Born to Prosper’s Mind Power, which is a self-help podcast which challenges its listeners to delve deep into their minds to find success. In addition, Shane travels the world in luxury to speak to aspiring entrepreneurs at conferences and workshops to inspire them to find their own pathways to success. Shane Krider is part of The Prosperity of Life Network, a United States-based personal development business with a presence in 52+ countries.
How to Find Happiness: Vigilance Drive
Rachel & Shane Krider’s third episode of their personal development podcast teaches you how to find happiness. Below is a snippet of the podcast where Shane discusses the vigilance drive and why it’s important.
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Being vigilant to me means that you are aware, you are awake, and you know your purpose. When it comes to being happy, why is it that we base our happiness on others instead of ourselves? I don’t know about you, but I tend to think “if it wasn’t for so and so, I can actually be successful.” There always seems to be somebody else or something else standing in the way of our happiness. Why is it that we all want is to live in our little safe places? When we’re in our safe zone, we feel as if there’s nothing out to get me and there’s nothing to worry about.
The way the world works is that we have to be vigilant to stay alive. Think of it with this analogy of farm animals. The farm animal can be happy and content grazing in the herd because ignorance is bliss right? But don’t you know, all of a sudden, there’s a wolf circling the herd. The vigilant animals realize this and run away. As the ignorantly blissful animal, what do you do? You sit there and linger in your own little world and don’t get out of harm’s way. What I’m trying to prove here is that the universe requires us to be vigilant, it’s just a fact of life.
We will all be driven into vigilance. You are not going to stay alive, you will not stay successful if you do not find a way to stay vigilant. What’s going to be your driving force into vigilance? You will only know you’re becoming more vigilant once you start making a conscious effort to do so since vigilance includes self-awareness and situational-awareness.
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Shane Krider is a successful personal development life coach, producer, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Along with his wife, Shane is the co-host of Born to Prosper’s Mind Power, which is a self-help podcast which challenges its listeners to delve deep into their minds to find success. In addition, Shane travels the world in luxury to speak to aspiring entrepreneurs at conferences and workshops to inspire them to find their own pathways to success. Shane Krider is part of The Prosperity of Life Network, a United States-based personal development business with a presence in 52+ countries.
The Bubble Perception
Taking things personally limits you. It reduces our bubble of perception, and it starts becoming a blame game. We need to take a step back and remember that we’re all human beings and we’re all just trying to have this life experience together. We create our environment. Granted, there are some people out there that are decidedly one way, but for the most part, most people aren’t. If we’re gracious and bigger picture minded, then that’s the way others are toward them. I call this the bubble perception.
You can’t harbor negative feelings for if you do, that’s going to trigger some negative outcomes. In the moment of my boss yelling at me, I had a choice, I can either be the effect of this or I can reach up and manage this thing from above and become more of the cause. Your outcome is ultimately up to you. Even if you feel like you are taking things personally, if you have the bigger picture in mind, you’re able to get the other person to see it as well.
We trigger this in other people. It’s almost like a contest of will, to see who’s going to submit to who’s picture. Two people in the same conversation will eventually take on one or the other or will meet in the middle, but the two different perceptions cannot coexist between the two people if they’re in the same conversation. This creates a bit of a tug-of-war with a lot of people. But I believe you can get to a point in life, that you can become decidedly on the right side of this the empowered side of this. And yeah, other people will still impact you, and you will still take things personally, but you will be so deeply grounded in the bigger picture that you’re able to snap yourself out of it pretty quickly.
The person that feels good about themselves tends to be uplifting around other people. Choose what to focus on; sure there’s plenty wrong with me, but what’s right is my value. And to the degree that I can value myself, is to the degree that I can value others. This allows you to rise into a much more positive emotional state.
Hear Shane Krider’s full podcast on not taking things personally here.
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Shane Krider is a successful personal development life coach, producer, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Along with his wife, Shane is the co-host of Born to Prosper’s Mind Power, which is a self-help podcast which challenges its listeners to delve deep into their minds to find success. In addition, Shane travels the world in luxury to speak to aspiring entrepreneurs at conferences and workshops to inspire them to find their own pathways to success. Shane Krider is part of The Prosperity of Life Network, a United States-based personal development business with a presence in 52+ countries.