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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. 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…
July 23, 2020
#122 Attaching Pain to Our Problems
Our society has become really good at using softeners, and at making others feel like they have to use them too, really guilt tripping the rest of us to use them so that we don’t make other people feel bad. Big problem! -we’…
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 liking yourself more and for…
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 …
April 24, 2020
#107 Fear is the true pandemic
When the dust settles as it is already beginning to do most of us will see that fear cost far more problems than COVID-19 ever did. With the best of intentions many people and significant leaders made decisions to close down…
April 23, 2020
#106 Never underestimate the power of your mind
There are wonderful things, even unbelievable things that we can do with our minds and our brains. I would suggest that most of us are living far below our privileges when it comes to enabling the full power of our brains. T…
April 15, 2020
#105 The BEST Way to Get The Results You Really Want
This is what leads great people to greatness. You know when you have periods in your life when you’re doing something or seeing something repeatedly and a lesson becomes blatantly obvious and clear? I’m reading Hamilton and …
March 28, 2020
#101 How to SHINE in DARK Times
To rise in falling times. To succeed in failing times. To win in losing times. To love and hateful times. To move in stagnant times. To excel and stifling times. We will all face challenging times in our lives! But as Marcus…
March 17, 2020
#98 You Get To CHOOSE How You Respond To This
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 po…
March 12, 2020
#96 The 6 Core Human Needs
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 …
Feb. 26, 2020
#93 The state of your brain determines the state of your life
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. B…
Feb. 5, 2020
#89 Living In Joy
It’s TOTALLY possible, though still surprisingly rare, to live in real joy day by day. The kind of joy that permeates your being and radiates through you and from you; that feeling—no, more than a feeling—that flows through …