Day 325: Steve Blampied
“I think once you find your path, once you find the thing that really resonates, it actually becomes less about courage. If you could find people that have been through the process before … find out how they made it, you realize that actually you can do it. Then it becomes less about overcoming fear, and it becomes more kind of a leap of faith, almost.”
.
.
.
Toni Reece: Thank you so much, Steve, for agreeing to be part of this Project today, and before we begin, can you please introduce yourself?
Steve Blampied: Okay. Well, I’d like to say thanks a lot for letting me be part of it. I’ve been looking through your previous interviews, and you’ve got a fantastic resource there.
Toni: Thank you.
Steve: It’s wonderful to be part of it.
Toni: Thank you.
Steve: So, about me … my name is Steve Blampied. I come from Jersey, which is a small isle in the English Channel. I am a former IT consultant and internet marketer, and these days I like to call myself a success facilitator. I’ve recently launched www.thelifekey.com, which is a website and an ebook, and my goal behind that is to help people to stop living in frustration and instead learn to live from inspiration.
Toni: Oh, I like that – to move from frustration to inspiration. Well that’s a great lead-in for the first question, Steve, which is when you think about inspiration, who do you inspire, and how does that happen?
Steve: Well, really I try to inspire everyone … everyone I meet, anyone I can reach, anybody who will listen, I suppose. Like I said, I want to give people a way to stop living by default.
There’s an old saying, “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Well, I want to show people that they can do what they love, they can break free of that frustration and live from inspiration. Often, our inner voice or our inner guide is pushed aside because of what we think we should do, and we live by other people’s rules that we’ve absorbed rather than from inspired thoughts. I want to change that.
Toni: How will you go about that?
Steve: Well, the first thing I found is if you explain to people why they are where they are, if you show them the reasons that they’ve been living the life they have and explain things like how our society, through our schools and the parents who often think they’re doing the best for us, they’re actually stifling our creativity. They teach us to expect less so that we’re not disappointed in life. They teach us to go with the program. If you show people that that’s where they are and that’s the position they’re in, they realize that it doesn’t have to be like that.
I often explain to people that your subconscious mind filters the reality around you. There are billions of bits of information flying at you all the time from your surroundings, and every nerve cell in your body through to the color of the walls around you to all the stuff that’s going on, and your subconscious filters that and provides you with a view of what is going on.
If you’re of an opinion that you’re in a certain place and that’s where you are, your subconscious will filter your surroundings to provide you with information to back up that belief of where you are. If you understand that that is just a belief, that the world around you is not necessarily how you perceive it, and if you understand that that change in your perception is you can change what you get, that can make a massive change for people …
Toni: How do you think by …
Steve: … if they have that knowledge …
Toni: Oh, I’m terribly sorry. What was the last thing you had said there?
Steve: Just that knowledge can make a matter change without anything else.
Toni: By working towards this and thinking along these lines, Steve, how do you then believe you will help others to explore their own potential?
Steve: I think once people realize that they have a potential … I mean, that’s the first thing. They have to understand that they are not stuck where they are. There is a massive potential for everybody. Once we get somebody to understand that, you then question. You then ask them, “Well, what makes you buzz? What’s the one thing that you wish you could do?”
I love the concept of flow. You know, when you’re doing something, the world kind of drifts away around you, and you get completely absorbed in that thing, and you can spend hours doing it. People get it with hobbies and pastimes, where they will lock themselves in the room and build model airplanes. Everyone’s got their own thing … and isolate that thing. Find that thing that makes you flow, that sends a tingle up the back of your spine, and then look at how you can make that thing your primary means of income and your life’s work.
Toni: What inspires you?
Steve: I have to say the thing that inspires me the most is seeing other people go through this process.
Toni: Okay.
Steve: To see … I mean, I’ve done it. I’m here now. I found the thing that makes me tick. I found my part. The thing that inspires me is seeing other people go through the same process and helping them to do it. It’s fantastic.
Toni: How did you … where did the inspiration come from for you to step into this path that you’re on? How were you inspired to do this?
Steve: Actually, my story is kind of the classic story of the guy that lost everything. Because of some particular situations, I had to look at myself and I had to reassess what I was doing and where I was coming from. I kind of discovered lots of things about my life that converged without me realizing it, and I needed a push to actually make the leap to go with it. And that push was losing the career that I was in and having to make that choice of “Well, what am I going to do now?” So mine was kind of forced upon me.
Toni: But you still had to have the courage to take the next step.
Steve: I think once you find your path, once you find the thing that really resonates, it actually becomes less about courage. If you could find people that have been through the process before, that have been in a similar position and you can check their stories out, find out how they made it, you realize that actually you can do it. Then it becomes less about overcoming fear, and it becomes more kind of a leap of faith, almost.
Toni: Oh, okay.
Steve: One day you’ve just got to do it.
Toni: You’ve just got to do it. You just have to have the resolve and just do it. That’s what you’re saying.
Steve: Yeah, and if you want it enough, if it’s the thing that makes you whole and there’s evidence there to tell you that you can do this thing and you can make this thing your life’s purpose or make it your method of bringing in your income … if the evidence is there, it’s not so much of a leap.
Toni: So what are you doing now to explore your own potential?
Steve: Really, moving into this field, it’s an ever-evolving thing. There’s new stuff every day. There’s new people to meet. There’s new experiences to have in there. To explore my potential, I think my ultimate goal is to just help as many people as I can. Exploring my potential is about finding everybody that needs me and being there and being kind of the go-to guy, the guy that can give guidance and show that it can be done.
Toni: It’s interesting … what I’m hearing from you reminds me of someone else that had been on the Project had said that it’s time for people in the Universe to stop being needy, but to be needed.
Steve: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I’m a firm believer that we’re all connected. We’re all part of the same thing, and one of my driving thoughts is by helping other people, you are helping yourself. Every time I help somebody, whether it’s to deal with an addiction from my days of doing EFT … which I still practice occasionally. If I help somebody get over an addiction or if I help somebody deal with an emotional problem that’s been causing them grief for years, the balance that I get as I walk away seeing that things have changed, that they are no longer being held back by this problem, there is nothing like it in the world.
There is nothing like that feeling of knowing that you have directly impacted somebody else’s life positively. And I firmly believe that it doesn’t stop there. The more people you help, it’s going to come back to you, because effectively you are helping the Universe. You’re helping the Universe to find its direction and to move along smoothly, and it’s going to come back to you. I love the idea of pay it forward as well. Brilliant idea. Help somebody, because eventually it’s going to come back to you.
Toni: Absolutely, and what a great final comment I think as far as your belief and what’s important to you and how you look at inspiration, and really your whole interview has been about … not so much about you, but about what you want to do for others. And we will position your website at the bottom of the transcript; and thank you so much for being part of this Project, Steve, and we wish you the best of luck, and thank you again.
Steve: Thank you for letting me be part of it, and I wish you the best of luck with the Project. What a wonderful Project.
Toni: Thank you. Thank you so much. Take care, Steve.
Steve: Okay. Good talking to you.
___________________________________________________________
For more information about Steve Blampied: www.thelifekey.com
.
Post Comment