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Tonight we had the ultimate experience. My wife and I were invited to San Diego with three other awesome couples to discuss our relationships with Tony and his wife Sage. The unique part of the experience was that it was all captured on video by Tony’s production team.

We started off with Tony talking to the eight of us, and introducing a video of one of his live events where a married couple, Jenn and Paul, were on the verge of divorce. I’ve attached a 3 minute intro to this video here:

After watching this emotional hour-long video, we sat down with Tony and Sage to give them our thoughts, and to discuss the different ways that we each found parallels between Jenn and Paul’s story with our own relationships.

Needless to say, it was an emotional experience! Both Tony and Sage had offered their candid observations about each of us, our body language, the words that we were using to communicate how we felt, and shed light on the ways our partners needed to be more fulfilled.

We got to experience a small taste of The Ultimate Relationship Program that Tony offers. To be able to have done this with Tony and his wife was amazing to say the least!

Every couple needs to go through this program. Emily and I are going to begin it this week. With the instant gratification culture that we have become accustomed to, we figure that if our relationships hit a rough patch something must be wrong with it. If it’s not working right, we’re in the wrong relationship. If I’m unhappy, it’s because my partner is wrong for me and I need to go exchange them.

Relationships take WORK. How many couples clean the cobwebs in their house weekly but allow cobwebs to grow in their own marriages? It’s time to restore passion to America’s marriages! My hope is that you will kick-start the passion and love your marriage deserves!

Yesterday was my birthday, and I received more messages and phone calls than I can remember… Thanks so much for all of the wonderful things you all said to me! I’m doing my best to send individual responses to each message, so if I delay in getting back to you, please forgive me.

This past year was tough, by far my toughest ever. As I went to bed last night, filled with a sense of gratitude for all the love I received, a line from “It’s A Wonderful Life” popped into my mind:

“Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.”

With that in mind, I’m the richest man in the world.

I’ve listened to Tony Robbins speak a few times in person, and he told this story once. I’ve always loved this story and thought I’d share it with you.

Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Mahatma Gandhi

How much would you want to know if you’d spend eternity walking around on Earth? A lot, right?

Alright, I’m going to get morbid on you but just play along:

You’ve had a routine physical exam, something looked a little strange to the doctor, so she sent you to get some blood work and some X-rays done. When you call up the hotline to get the test results, your doctor says, “I’d like to see you in the office to discuss the tests.”

When you arrive, the doctor tells you, “I’m sorry, but we’ve found some abnormalities, and we caught them too late.” When push comes to shove, you find out that you have weeks left to live before you die.

What would you do? You’d panic, right? “I still have more life to live! What about the people I’m going to leave behind??” Why is it that only when tragedy strikes that we think these things? Otherwise, we go about our daily lives not even thinking twice about how we can drop dead in an INSTANT.

While I hope you’re not obsessed with your mortality, the reason I bring this up is because the quote I read by Mahatma Gahndi this morning really resonated with me.  It’s such a cliche’ that we hear always, “Life is short.” Guess what – it really is! It’s short, it goes by in the blink of an eye, and the last thing I want to be thinking when I’m 80 years old is, “Man, I wish I spent less time worrying about the present and just ENJOYED it.”

I just read an article in the Orange County Register about a young man and his father from Yorba Linda, CA who passed away in a small plane crash. The young man and his Dad were working on a house together. The young man was 26 years old, has a 1 year old child, and his wife is pregnant with another. 26 years old. My heart breaks for his wife and kids.

What have I been putting off until “later”? Later is TODAY. Go learn the language you want to learn. Go take that trip you’ve been putting off. Take your significant other to that place he or she has been wanting to go to for so long. Tell your kids what they mean to you. Tell someone you’re sorry. Red, Morgan Freeman’s character from The Shawshank Redemption says it best: “You either get busy livin’ or you get busy dyin’.”

Take action and start living!

Are you feeling beat up? Watch Rocky.

I love inspirational quotations.

This quotation reminds me that if we’re not uncomfortable – we’re not growing!

“To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done.” – Anonymous

Now go out there and get uncomfortable. If you feel comfortable where you are in life, you’re not taking a risk, and you’re not growing!

Thanks for stopping by my future home on the Internet!

As of January 9th, 2009, I am currently working on getting my site up and running. In the meantime, you can follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/galel.

Galel.com should be up and running by the end of the weekend!

Have a productive and fun weekend!
Galel
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