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July 20, 2020

#121 Progress IS Happiness. Happiness is progress.

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 ha…
July 10, 2020

#120 The Unattractive Secret to Success

Repetition is the unsexy secret to success! And it is one of the greatest ironies in life. We are so quick to say to ourselves that we’ve already done that before, we’ve already heard that before, we’ve already seen that bef…
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…
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, …
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 ab…
June 11, 2020

#116 Why Good Marriages Fail and What to Do to Protect Yours!

A very well-known couple with a seemingly good marriage recently announced their divorce publicly. It was a shock to a lot of people including me. But I get to do coaching for a couples every week and I know what’s often goi…
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 res…
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 des…
May 20, 2020

#112 Are you living the life you always wanted?

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…
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…
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 shoul…
April 27, 2020

#108 The 3 Ways Of Living

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 transf…
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 dow…
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. …
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 an…
April 9, 2020

#104 Increasing your capacity to do MORE with LESS stress and strain

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 …
April 7, 2020

#103 How to Fill Your Life With Hope and Happiness

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 go…
April 3, 2020

#102 Baby steps are for babies, not for you

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?!…
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 Marc…
March 21, 2020

#100 Stop acting like you’re on vacation—the economy is dying

I hope I’m wrong but I think the economy is going to get smashed. It’s already happening. People are being let go and laid off. They’re being told to file right away for unemployment. The government is getting ready to spend…
March 18, 2020

#99 This Crisis is YOUR Chance

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 ourselve…
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 …