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Oct. 17, 2020
#130 A Poetic Formula For Greatness
In this episode we talk about the formula for greatness. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their do…
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. 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. 21, 2020
#125 How to Choose Your Trials And Challenges w/Rachel Denning
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 tha…
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 2, 2020
#119 How to like yourself For the rest of your life
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 like yourself more and for t…
June 25, 2020
#118 Finding your life purpose, (& possibly business)
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, yo…
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…
June 7, 2020
#115 Looking back from your own future
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 lifel…
May 28, 2020
#114 The Effort Effect
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 resul…
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 1, 2020
#109 Make It Matter
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 …