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What’s up kiddo, how’s your day treating you? Ive been on my workout every morning (5a) and Im actually feeling good (thanks Rae!). Getting it done early is really giving me time during the day to get my reading in too.

Last time we were discussing the values hierarchy of a few pleasurable states, so there is of course the flip side of that and we will look at the fear dominated avoidance emotions. Again there are some on the list that we will do more to avoid than others, so simply put them in the order of the painful emotional state that you would least like to be in to the one that would bother you the least…the one at the top of the list would be the one that you would do absolutely anything to avoid feeling and the one at the bottom wouldn’t be so bad mmmmkay

This time we’ve got:

1. Humiliation
2. Guilt
3. Anger
4. Depression
5. Failure
6. Rejection
7. Frustration
8. Loneliness

So in the book, the author was saying that if your top hierarchy of values both towards (pleasure) and away (pain) are opposites than you will be have conflicting thoughts and that people will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.

If youre like me and your top towards is success and your top away is Failure/Humiliation then you cannot be successful until you change something. Not that I didn’t know this before, but the way it was put makes it so simple to understand that it makes you want to change.

So back to the comment last time when I said that I read the Left Behind series in about a month then promptly stated that I wasn’t just sitting around reading, that I had work and other things going on while reading; as I mentioned earlier failure and humiliation are feelings I would do just about anything to avoid, so I was qualifying my reading rate as to not look slow (or humiliated at my reading rate). Speaking of reading rate, I told you I was just about half way through Mockingjay the 3rd book in The Hunger Games trilogy…well I finished it!

It was amazing, until it wasn’t :/ The last few pages of the last chapter killed it for me. If you’ve read it tell me what you think.

Alright y’all, put your pain hierarchy of values in the comments below or on FB and if you read all the hunger games books

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Anyway enough about that stuff. Who’s going to win the Super Bowl huh?

In this New Year I’ve been doing  A LOT of reading, there are about 30-35 books I want to get to before the year is up. Mostly business books and personal growth type stuff…I don’t read a lot of fiction.

Right now Im learning about values and what it says about how you make your way through life, super cool stuff.

Oh and real quick let me tell you, I try to stay away from fiction because I cant put the dang thing down most of the time! And I typically like series. Yup read the WHOLE Left Behind series in about a month (I do have to work and Im not a fast reader so that it really good for me)

Anywho back to the fiction thing…you may have heard of a little book series called The Hunger Games! It came out about 6 years ago, but blew up about 2 years ago when they began releasing the film series. So my pal G (shout out to Gunny who is hip to the game)  2 years ago tells me he’s reading it trying to finish just before the first movie which was being released a week before his birthday. Im thinking, “oh brother, is this going to be as big and lame as the Twi Hards and Henry Pothead crap?”

I indulge him by asking what it’s about and deciding that it’s not my bag, but good for everyone who is enjoying it ya know.

Well I saw the first movie, I don’t know, maybe about 6-7 months ago, it was alright nothing to write home about. Well 2 weeks ago I by chance got a hold of the second book and read it. Yup finished the whole thing in about 8 or 9 days. And I am now about half way through book 3. O M G!!

It’s amazing, I cant put it down…once again why I hate to read fiction; I got stuff to take care of, I can’t be sitting around reading books that aren’t helping me be a better trainer, business person, or person in general  :p

On that note, back to the whole values thing that I intended to write about in the first place.

Lets have some fun, shall we? Put the following pleasurable states in order of value to you…you may be surprised at what you put. Now certainly you probably value all of the emotions on the following list and that they’re all important for you to feel as well as a lot more. But it would be fair to say that you value some over others, that you’ll do more to achieve some than others, right?.

Show me yours and I’ll show you mine!

1. Love
2. Success
3. Freedom
4. Comfort
5. Passion
6. Intimacy
7. Health
8. Security
9. Adventure
10. Power

So place your hierarchy of values in the comments below I’d love to see what yours are. Quick side note, did you notice how I qualified the length of time I took to read the left behind series?  In a couple of days I will be sharing the other end of the spectrum, the emotions we try to avoid, and it’ll all make sense why I did that.

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