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Six Reminders
I have a list of six tasks or reminders I reaffirm and level up on before I set out to achieve any new goal or right after any big life challenge occurs. I call life my a surrender experiment. If you want to achieve anything big or even just prosper through everyday life, you are…
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See the World Bigger
“When we try to make ourselves bigger in the eyes of the world, we shrink the size of our world. When we expand our knowledge of the world around us, we make the world bigger.”
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Awareness Builds Momentum
Bringing awareness into your life is a process, it isn’t something that happens overnight. It isn’t something that intense effort will bring you. While awareness practices can be found in every religious tradition from Christianity to Zen Buddhism, the awareness I am talking about here is a practical approach for quieting the mind. This will…
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The Real Source of Positive Change
Just under the label of self help alone, there are nearly 90,000 books in print. Then you can just keep adding labels, like success, spirituality, motivation, and the list goes on and on. My point is that we have more books available to us than we could read in a lifetime. So how many of…
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Toxic Self Help
If you are a regular consumer of self help content, I would encourage you to watch James Jani’s “Toxic Self Help” video at the end of this post. Well written self help books can make us feel good, and give us a dopamine boost. We momentarily feel better. We set out to change our lives,…
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Cut Out the Middleman
Any worthwhile endeavor you take on is going to involve planning, preparation, and doing. There are some who do too much planning, and suffer not getting as much done as they could. On the other end of the spectrum is the person who takes on the endeavor without proper planning, and paints themselves into a…
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Seeing Knowledge Clearly
When I was in my mid-thirties I remember a trip to the grocery store with my wife Diane, who would occasionally read the fine print on the labels. I noticed that she was holding the labels further from her eyes in order to see them clearly. I teasingly asked if she needed gadget arms to…
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
One thing that I am very aware of when writing these blog posts, is that it is easy to talk about achieving great things. It is another matter entirely to actually make things happen. When we plan, talk, and write about success, we meet with minimal resistance. When we get out there and start moving…
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Five Things You Wouldn’t Normally Do
Lives have been transformed by doing things we wouldn’t normally do.. I would like to challenge you this week to do five things you wouldn’t normally do. They can be as simple as changing up where you go for lunch. You could also go to the other end of the spectrum and go skydiving. Maybe…
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Things That Have to Get Done
All of us have those things in our lives that we have to get done. Sometimes we don’t want to do them. Can you think of something that you don’t like to do, but it has to be done anyway? Here is something that has helped me to make that process much easier. Today’s post…