Extraordinary Lifestyle Episodes

Do we have to have trials in life? Do challenges make us stronger? What if we could choose our challenges and trials? Is that even possible?!What if we told you that there is a way to avoid trials and embrace challenges that can totally transform your whole life experience and help you become the kind of hero you want to become without the kind of suffering you want to avoid?Listen to this episode today and share it with someone you know who needs to hear it RESOURCES: Let us help you in your ex...

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 our training.” In the last week we went on a few extraordinary hikes in the Rocky Mountains. On Saturday we had the opportunity and privilege to help rescue a young man who was injured in a rockslide. We were only able to help him because we were prepared to help him. We were ...

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 ask ourselves in every important aspect of life, are we showing up to participate or to win? Because the world is becoming more competitive and more advanced, none of us can afford to merely participate in the things that matter most. We will get beat if we think we can just co...

Are you progressing? Really progressing? 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 at the right pace. We have to move, and at the right pace. It is in our spiritual DNA. We were made to move. We were created to create. Many of you are struggling only because your goals are impotent!So what are you going to do that is so big it will redefined this year? RESOURCES: Let us help you i...

We all have a relationship with ourselves. Sometimes we like ourselves and sometimes we don’t. There may even be parts of us that we like and parts that we don’t. But there is a simple formula to liking yourself more and for the rest of your life.We can all be more strategic about it. More intentional, more deliberate, more proactive. RESOURCES: Let us help you in your extraordinary family life journey. How We Raised 7 Well-Adjusted Kids - Without Yelling, Tantrums, Punishments or Power Struggle...

Imagine losing your ability to speak. Many good people are going through life without discovering and cultivating their unique voice, the special message they want to share with the world. This could be your life purpose, your mission, or even your vacation.But whatever you do, don’t “ lead a life of quiet desperation and go to your grave with your song still in you.”Do the mental and physical work to discover and cultivate your purpose and voice. Bring it to life!“Striving to find meaning in on...

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 about why we can’t start or why we can’t continue. But the truth is, you have the power within you already to be unstoppable! You can become unstoppable as a matter of principle and practice. This isn’t some heroic thing. This isn’t some grandiose gift from God reserved for very...

Today my teenage boys and I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit two different elderly women who are living on their own. What a privilege! We were so fortunate to sit and bask in their life stories, their unique lifelong perspectives, and absorb the wisdom from lives well lived.You and I have the opportunity to jump ahead to our own future in our minds and then to look back and carefully consider the lives we have lived. What will you be grateful you did? What will you be grateful you did...

Have you ever worked on some thing and noticed that the outcome is directly tied to your efforts?This is true in most things in life! We get out what we put in.This is what I called the effort effect. Our rewards and results are literally linked to our efforts.Many of you were only getting half results because you’re only putting in half effort. In what areas of your life are you putting in too little effort and then complaining about too few results?Level up today! Learn what you need to learn....

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 design, create, and live the life of our choice! We can live extraordinary lives if we will! It’s not that we can’t, it’s that we don’t. It’s valuable to ask ourselves on us questions. Is my life boring because I’m boring? Is my life unfulfilling because I’m not doing fulfilling t...

Where have you settled for less? What dream or goal have you given up on? Take journey into the past, into your own past, and remember what you used to dream about. Do you still want that dream? If it’s still in your heart, bring it back to life! Then create a plan to make it happen. Let me help!

Too often we fail to give importance to The most important things in our lives.We get busy and distracted. We get passionate about things that don’t matter and passive about things to do.We know that certain things should be more important to us than others but we don’t always show it.Of course this begins to be manifest in our life and we end up with results that we don’t want.My invitation and challenge to you is to make it matter!Raise necessity! Raise urgency! Raise commitment!Grab a hold of...

Ultimately there are three ways to do life. It is possible to remain in one of these ways for your entire life or to mix between them on a weekly or even a daily basis. The three ways are: trapped, transactional, and transformational. Trapped is always blaming themselves and their circumstances. They play the victim. They can’t actually do things they want because of their circumstances. “I can’t afford it.” They often give up improvements on self and life for fleeting moments with vices and add...

I know this sounds crazy but I see it all the time! There are literally ways that we can accomplish more in less time and with less stress and strain. You’ve probably already experienced this in your life when you realized that you were doing something very inefficiently and less effectively. As soon as you made a few tweaks and changes you were able to do Far more and faster times and in much more enjoyable ways! The same is true for almost every area of life. Even if we’ve been doing it for a ...

Are you feeling hopeful and genuinely happy? Is your home filled with happiness and hope?Too often we only feel hope and happiness when things are going our way but begin to feel hopeless and unhappy the moment anything goes wrong. Hope and happiness are the result of purposeful choices!“People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.“These are the four circuits of happiness in your brain. Get into a positive state.Recover from a negative state.The ability to focus.Being generous. R...

And of course they produce baby results. So please tell me why so many capable adults are still taking baby steps! We are living far below our potential in our capacity. And yet we are obsessed with taking baby steps. Why?! There’s so much more that you can do if you’ll just overcome the fixed mindset and the irrational fear of picking up your stride and your pace in order to speed walk or run towards your goals and dreams! It’s go time my friends. Stop playing small and start taking massive act...

Every crisis is an opportunity and this one is yours!We can see this as a problem or is a privilege.We can sit in our house is killing time, sedating ourselves with entertainment, or we can use this time to lift ourselves with knowledge and skill development. None of us can afford to waste this opportunity! Do not squander this chance to transform your life! RESOURCES: Let us help you in your extraordinary family life journey. How We Raised 7 Well-Adjusted Kids - Without Yelling, Tantrums, Punis...

Even in the midst of all the craziness and chaos you and I still get to choose how we respond! Calm or chaotic Prepared or panic Certain in the midst of the uncertainty Abundant or scarce Thoughtful or fearful We have the power to choose our thoughts, our feelings, our words, our actions and our behaviors! There is still so much we can and must control and direct!This pattern interrupter can end up being one of the greatest times of our lives! We can use it to grow and learn and improve and refi...

Are you worried about coronavirus? Are you stressed about missing work or economic fallout? Are you wondering how to talk to your kids about all the craziness? How do you face your fears or even replace your fears? Do you have a healthy way to cope with anxiety or anxious feelings? In a world dominated by fear and worry, many people and organizations seem set on spreading panic. But fear can become controlling and limiting to your life. Learn to effectively manage your fear while still taking ap...

There are six core things that every human being needs. When these are missing or not met, it leaves a void in our lives. Then we begin feeling unfulfilled and frustrated and unmotivated.The six human needs can actually be applied to every area of your life. I invite you to carefully think through each important area of your life in the context of the six human needs and see what’s working and what’s missing. CertaintyUncertaintySignificanceConnection/loveGrowthContribution RESOURCES: Let us hel...

With so many misconceptions about what it means to be a man, and so many men living far below the standard, we all need to put forth the greatest effort to help boys and men be real men! "At each moment in man's life, he is either a King or a slave. As he surrenders to a wrong appetite, to any human weakness; as he falls prostrate in hopeless subjection to any condition, to any environment, to any failure, he is a slave. As he day by day crushes out human weakness, masters opposing elements with...

Most of us have aspects of our life that are frustrating or disappointing. Why is that? Why is it that that part of our life sucks? Honestly, because we suck at it! That’s actually really great news because once we realize that we lack skill set in that area, we can begin doing something right away to improve the skill. You have way more power than you think you do! The quality and outcome of every area of your life depends upon your skill set in that area.

If we don’t understand how the brain works, we don’t understand how life works. New brain scanning technology is revolutionizing what we know about human performance and how the brain is affecting our bodies and our lives.Brain scanning is the future! And I believe that at some point every one of us ought to have our brain scanned. The condition of your brain is literally determining the condition of your life. Your brain state and brain function are affecting your mindset, your emotions, your e...

There’s nothing quite like an international adventure to be a pattern interrupter, a wake up call, and a reality check. It’s when we are exposed to new and different things, and to wonderful people that we remember to think, act, and live differently and better.My wife Rachel and I recently led a couples trip to Thailand over Valentine’s Day and had some absolutely amazing adventures and experiences.Here are a few of the life-changing lessons we learned and how they can dramatically influence yo...