#47 - THINK FIT: I CONTROL MY HAPPINESS WITH MY FOCUS.

Happy Wednesday, it is June 3rd. Uh, welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. I'm Jorge Cruise, and this is the show for high performance living, uh, when you don't have time. And a lot of you guys have been asking, what is high performance living? For me, it's knowing that you can work better, that you can reduce pain, you can improve your memory, you can sleep better, and you can get that flat belly too, using really simple methods that that I've gathered over 20 years of my career. So I share that on this show, and I'm so excited you're here right now. What a crazy week it's been. You know, I send a lot of my thoughts and prayers to a lot of people. Yesterday was Blackout Tuesday. I'm sure you guys heard of this. We took a pause on the podcast as well, just to honor and really just give time for all of us to kind of take a breath. I feel like our country right now is upheaval. Uh, my goodness, we've got the coronavirus, COVID-19, while a lot of distraught is happening throughout these big urban cities around the country where there are riots and just really hard things going on. A lot of my friends in New York have curfews at 8 PM at night, and it's just a time that is difficult. And so I think today's Think Fit is critical And I hope you'll use this today to really improve your happiness. The show is brought to you by Navitas Organics, and Navitas Organics in a nutshell is how I cheat my fast. You guys know how much I believe in intermittent fasting as one of the pillars to good health, um, and the key to it, uh, in my opinion, because I do one meal a day. I have certain clients to do two meals a day. Usually it's a 16-hour fasting window and you eat for 8 hours. I eat in a smaller compressed window, but regardless whether you're doing one meal or meals, what do you do during that 16 or 20+ hour window when you're not eating your macronutrients, right? Because that's what breaks the fast. Well, there's a way to cheat it using chia seeds. And so I love Navitas Organics because they have the highest quality chia seeds you can get. The recipe I always give it up is it's so simple, and you can try this today. It's 3 tablespoons of this organic chia seeds from Navitas 3 tablespoons of avocado oil, 8 ounces of unsweetened almond milk. You can sub it out for other types of milks. I would avoid dairy though because it has sugar, as long as it's sugar-free. And I use some sort of natural sweetener like stevia or monk fruit to taste, right? You literally stir it, don't blend it, and then what happens is the chias form a membrane around themselves that literally allow them to pass through your digestive system, that literally fills you up and you don't absorb it. So you literally cheat the fast. You're full, it's delicious, and you'll lose more belly fat. So it's pretty darn powerful. And talk about working better, reducing pain— your whole body feels transformed with this.

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And today, if you are struggling with happiness and feel stressed out, unhappy, unmotivated, today's ThinkFit's going to shift all that for you instantly. It says, I control my happiness with my focus. Let's get started.

It's a fact, 91% of us have a dangerous amount of belly fat, and it isn't just unsightly. When you have too much belly fat, you sabotage your ability to live a high-performance lifestyle because you're more likely to suffer from aches and pains, low energy, memory loss, and poor sleep, which prevents you from performing your best at work, spending true quality time with your loved ones, and doing your favorite hobbies. The good news is that you can break this cycle, reduce belly fat, and achieve high-performance living in just 8 Minutes. Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the leader in 8-minute high-performance living to the world's busiest celebrities. I've been a fitness, nutrition, and life strategist for over 25 years, and you may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, President Clinton, Tyra Banks, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, or even Steve Harvey. My passion to find the best science-backed shortcuts has allowed me to write over 30 books and become a multiple New York Times bestselling author with over 9 million books in print. And I know I can help you too. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show.

Well, it is Wednesday. Uh, it is the 3rd of June and I hope you're doing well on this Wednesday. Uh, yesterday was an interesting day throughout social media. If you guys were on Instagram or Facebook, Facebook, you probably saw a lot of this Blackout Tuesday, and it really was a time to honor, I think, the silence we needed in our world to calm down and to take a breath and know that we can peacefully say what we want to say. And I hope if you're in some urban city where there's upheaval— I have friends in New York that have curfews at 8 o'clock, like I said, and My goodness, that's the world we're in right now. And then on top of that, COVID-19 is still out there, but luckily that is, I think, improving in the sense that I think it's getting safer and safer and we're being more cautious. We're all wearing our masks. So let's continue and washing our hands. So regardless, it's Wednesday. Let's make today a great day. And I really think you're going to enjoy today's show because it's simple. It's about being happy. And I feel like the bottom line is so many of us are scared, angry, upset at the world, unsure of what to do. We've lost our certainty, shall we say. And I can tell you, for me, I used to be in that same place a couple years ago. I mean, I go back 20 years ago when I started my career, and probably just until 10 years ago did I finally realize what it took to be happy, and it wasn't materialistic things, although I was blessed with, with my career and being very successful as an author and having all those material things you think make you happy. And then 10 years ago, for me, you know, I had to recommit to happiness because I wasn't feeling happy, even though I had all the materialistic things that you would think would make you happy. So today's Think Fit is going to help us change that and feel happy right now. And I hope it's something that you can use today, share with others, and use it throughout the day. And it's understanding that your focus determines everything. It's not the reality of your material world. It's not your body. It's not your income. It's not your relationships, but it's your focus. Your focus is your power. So the affirmation, I'm going to say it 3 times. I'm going to have you repeat it with me. It says the following, it says, "I control my happiness with my focus." Hear these words again. I control my happiness with my focus. I control my happiness with my focus. Now, what that means to me, and I think the invitation I have for you right now is to realize that happiness is 100%, not even 99%, but 100%, if anything, 110% based on what you see and what you focus in on through your, through your eyes, through your ears, through your world. And my favorite movie of all time won an Academy Award years ago called Life is Beautiful. It was an Italian movie. It was rare for the Academy Awards to acknowledge a foreign film, right? But if you Google search Life is Beautiful. It's the story of a man and his son that are put into a very stressful environment, and yet he's able to create happiness for his son. And so it's through the focus, through changing that lens of your life. And if your lens right now is dark and you want to change that, you can make that happen today. There's absolutely no question about it. And it's simple. All you have to realize is that you're in charge of what you feel every single day. And I know that puts a lot on you because, you know, if you come from a standpoint where I was, say, 10 years ago, you want to blame your mother, your father, your grandmother. You want to blame your lack of success, that you're not successful enough for your lack of happiness. And I'll tell you, it's not.

It is not true.

Listen to me, guys.

It is not true.

Happiness comes whether you're alone, whether you are just making ends meet, and whether you right now maybe don't have the best health, but it can come from simply focusing in on what you do have. By changing that focus and saying, what am I grateful for? You know, what is good in my life? What is good in my life? Things like that, simple questions can shift it all. We'll get into that in a minute, but let's do the affirmation right now together. And then let's see how you can apply this in your life today and truly feel not 10% happier, I'm hoping 100% happier because it's that simple to shift everything. So let's do this together right now. Stand tall. Hopefully you have a mirror nearby. Look at yourself in the mirror.

Possible.

If you can't, you can't. But if you can, the science has shown that affirmations like this one, these Think Fits, are more potent, more powerful when you have a mirror in front of you. So say the following: I control my happiness with my focus. I control my happiness with my focus. I control my happiness with my focus. Take a deep breath in right now and release all the stress of yesterday and know that happiness is determined by what you see and what— how you hear things and how you experience your world.

World.

There are people in third world countries that have so little things materialistically but are happy every day. And there are people— and I've met them in New York City, LA, Beverly Hills, Bel Air— that have gorgeous homes, multi-million dollar mansions, compounds, even, uh, have everything at their fingertips and are literally breaking. You know, I recently saw the film Rocketman, a The story of Elton John. And if you guys have seen that film or know of Elton John, you know he had everything and yet committed or tried to commit suicide multiple times because of the lack of happiness in his life, even though he had those materialistic things and the success of millions of people. We all knew, and we still know, Elton John. Luckily, the story has a happy ending because he realized, uh, as if you Google search Elton John, you know he's had a second chapter in his life where he now is happy, and not because he's successful, or he made another gazillion dollars, or has more records on the number one hits, or anything, but because of simple things, you know, in his life that he's now aware of. And awareness can change everything. For me, you know, in a nutshell, 10 years ago I was in a place where I had the beautiful home, the beautiful family, my two sons, uh, and my spouse and I were not happy. And it wasn't her fault, it wasn't my fault. I just had lost my focus, uh, as a young gay Catholic man, not knowing I was gay. For me, I was brought up in a place where that wasn't something that was an option. It was considered a type of cancer, being gay. And you can imagine, if you're healthy, as I was brought up to be, that you avoid things that are harmful, right? And so for me, avoiding this part of me that I didn't want to accept, um, because it wasn't something my family would accept, was really hard.. And as much as I had all these materialistic, wonderful things in my life, I was unhappy, you know? And so for me, it took shifting to a place of uncertainty where I wasn't, uh, you know, maybe in the most certain place in my life, because believe me, when you end a relationship and you break up a family, it really is heavy on you. I mean, my heart was so darkened and sad by that, but I knew I had to become who I was. And that was 10 years ago, you know, and I had been successful for 10 years prior to that, but not feeling that level of happiness. And so if you're in a place where you feel muted, like literally the pause button is on your happiness, you may need to reevaluate your life today and really think, what can I start to focus in on that is good? And that's what I did 10 years ago. I started to think of times when I was happy. And the things that made me happy, I tried to do more of. And as I did more of those things, I realized that it had nothing to do with a fancy car, a fancy home, um, and any of that. And so it nurtured my ability to become more authentic. And I think as you become happier, you become more authentic.

It's automatic.

So your homework is simple on this beautiful Wednesday is to use this affirmation. I control my happiness with my focus. Use it throughout the day to, to really plant that seed of truth in your head right now. Share this message, I hope, with your loved ones. Please share it with those that you know are not feeling happy right now for whatever reason. You know, in today's world, it's easy to be unhappy. The financial world is a mess right now throughout the world. I mean, the United States is in so, so much debt right now, trillions of dollars. We know this. A lot of us have lost our jobs. A lot of us are in relationships after quarantine that we may realize were really great relationships or also maybe not the best. I've been reading statistics on divorce rates going up because of quarantine, because people finally had a moment to be with someone and realize, oh my gosh, who is this person? And so evaluate those things, but don't focus in on them. Focus in on the things your homework on the things that are positive, the things that make you happy. You know, for me, it's a sunset, it's a sunrise, it's positive light in the morning. I use my red light therapy, as you guys know, it makes me feel good. I focus in on that. I ask questions about what am I so grateful for today? You know, I wake up, my heart's beating, I'm grateful for my heart. I take deep breaths, I have good I used to have asthma 30 years ago as a kid. I can breathe. Think of all the things you're grateful for. Think about all the people in your life you're grateful for or could be grateful for, right? I have an incredible sister, which I adore, you know, and she has been there through the hardest and darkest times in my life. She's my only remaining family, and I'm so grateful to my sister Marta.

Shout out to her.

And shout out to all the good in your life, because it's there. You just have to remember to see it. So I hope this makes sense, guys. Enjoy today's Think Fit. Share today's show with everyone you love that needs to hear this, and I'll be back tomorrow on Thursday. All right, make it a great day. Peace and purpose. Now, if you have a minute more, listen in. I want to invite you to join my Jorge Cruise Report.

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