Being called ‘Crazy’ is perhaps the very best compliment you can receive. In the beginning, it’s important to share your vision with as many people as you possibly can. When people shake their head and tell you that you’re crazy, you’re on the right track. Keeping going. If you never hear that type of response, [...]
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In the 1960s Walter Mischel conducted an experiment that he called ‘The Marshmallow Test’. In case you’re unfamiliar with this, here’s what it looked like:
Walter would put a marshmallow in front of a four-year-old child and offered them two choices:
i) Eat the marshmallow right now
ii) Wait a certain length of time, and if [...]
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Regardless of whether or not you’re someone who writes, this will be an eye-opening activity if you give it a chance.
Take out some blank paper, or open a fresh word processing document (for most people, the computer is better). Set a timer for 10 minutes.
Plan to keep this piece of writing completely private. [...]
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Beliefs, Thoughts, Feelings, Actions, Results.
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(Self-Limiting) Beliefs, (Self-Defeating) Thoughts, (Fragile) Feelings, (No) Action, (No) Results.
What if there was a tool that could help you to address the root cause? What if this same tool was simple to learn, easy to apply where ever and whenever you needed it and completely FREE?
This is a whole new [...]
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‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Teach him to teach others how to fish, and you feed the world.’ ~Jimmy Smith, Professional Networker
We’re in the information age. The opportunities with the greatest potential centre around Intellectual Distribution. [...]
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It’s time that everyone admit to being an artist. This is one of the only ‘categories’ that we all fit into and completely understand.
To create, is to ‘bring something into existence’.
Every single one of us has a need to create, and to experience the creations of others.
Surely you’ve heard before, that in order to [...]
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is goal-setting; intentional goal-setting.
I’ve decided against writing a long post about why we avoid setting goals. Instead, I want to make it really easy for you to get this done today.
Here’s a simple, 3-page document that will walk you through a great process that I use.
Print it out, grab a pen (a blank [...]
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In billions of conversations taking place all over the world, there is one particular question that gets asked way too often:
‘What do you do?’
We need to unlearn this question.
It deadens far more conversations than it inspires. More specifically, it kills potentially fascinating moments of dialogue.
Here’s why:
From the first day of kindergarten, we’re taught to sort [...]
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I have developed a belief that society teaches us to be afraid of Desire; and I wonder if this is one of the most common roadblocks to realizing our full potential?
Initially, this seems like a bizarre concept. Why would anyone be afraid to want more?
I think their are a few reasons.
It’s been my observation that [...]
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I had a revolutionary discovery this week.
As you may already know, I work full time from home and have been now for nearly 3 whole months (feels longer). And as you may imagine, (or know from first-hand experience) the biggest challenge working from home is to stay productive. It is certainly easy to be distracted, [...]