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Dec. 15, 2020

#136 The Greatest Tragedy and How To Avoid It

What is the greatest tragedy in life? If we look at the whole picture of life, it seems to me that the greatest tragedy is when an amazing human being fails to live a life that is meaningful, fulfilling and maximized. Each p…
Nov. 11, 2020

#133 Why You MUST Be Strategically Out Of Balance

It seems counterintuitive. Actually, it seems crazy, but you and I have to be strategically out of balance in order to master the most important things in life! If you want to be truly successful, you have to become really g…
Oct. 4, 2020

#129 How To Think Like A Genius—Next Level Thinking

There are levels of thinking. Most people think at first level thinking. Second, third, and fourth level thinking is extremely rare. But in order to learn to think like a genius, we must discipline ourselves to practice next…
Sept. 27, 2020

#128 How to Live With Absolute Freedom

Every person I have ever met wants more freedom! We were born to be free. We were created for freedom. Freedom from guilt, pain, poor health, debt, addiction. We want money freedom and time freedom. We long to be free enough…
Sept. 16, 2020

#127 How To Sleep Better And Why You Must Make It a Priority

The quality of your sleep is far more important than you probably realize! It can affect you physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually. It affects your cognitive performance and the way you feel. It even affect…
Sept. 6, 2020

#126 Letting life happen TO you or making it happen FOR you

There are two ways to experience life. You can let it happen to you or you can make it happen for you. For most people, the only things that happen in their lives are the things that happened to them. They live like puppets,…
Aug. 10, 2020

#124 When Life Gets Crazy

What do you do when life gets crazy? What will you do when life gets crazier? The answer is that we all fall back to our training! Archilochus said, “we do not rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of o…
July 30, 2020

#123 Are you here to participate or to Win?

Winning requires a different set of skills and a different mindset! Anyone can show up to play or to participate, but if you want to win you have to think and act differently. You have to be more strategic! And so we must as…
July 20, 2020

#121 Progress IS Happiness. Happiness is progress.

Are you progressing? Really progressing? Progress is happiness. We are made to move! We are created to create! When we are not moving, creating, progressing we feel empty and blah. And we feel that way if we are not moving a…
July 10, 2020

#120 The Unattractive Secret to Success

Repetition is the unsexy secret to success! And it is one of the greatest ironies in life. We are so quick to say to ourselves that we’ve already done that before, we’ve already heard that before, we’ve already seen that bef…
June 20, 2020

#117 Becoming Unstoppable

Most of us are just too stoppable. We stop at every obstacle, every inconvenience, every time we get uncomfortable, or every time we doubt ourselves. We make excuses, we justify, we rationalize, we tell ourselves stories abo…
May 26, 2020

#113 REMIND yourself to Live a Heroic Life

We think of those who have died so that we can remember to live! We remember those who have lived heroic lives so that we are reminded to live heroic lives ourselves. Everyone of us has the opportunity and privilege to desig…
May 20, 2020

#112 Are you living the life you always wanted?

Are you living the life you always wanted? Where have you settled for less? What dream or goal have you given up on? Take a journey into the past, into your own past, and remember what you used to dream about. Do you still w…
May 14, 2020

#111 Rethinking How You Do Life

Have you ever wanted to do life differently? Have you ever dreamed about living a life it is very distinct from the one you’re living now? I want to invite you to question everything. Not any cynical or critical way, but in …
May 7, 2020

#110 How to think and thrive under pressure

The level of your thinking dictates the level of your life! You have trained yourself, probably unconsciously, to think the way you think. If that thinking is not creating the results you want then you need to strategically …