Live Longer Being an Optimistic Realist
Are you an "Optimist" or a "Realist" who is optimistic?
It makes a difference.  
Studies have shown that Optimists don't live as long and Optimistic Realists.
Why?
Being blindly optimistic today can lead to massive disappointment and stress. There is too much noise in the world trying to bring you down.
When you choose to be an optimistic Realist, you look at the world with a much clearer lens. Occasionally you will be surprised by an outcome. You will rarely be disappointed.  
I think it's better to be surprised occasionally than constantly worried. How about you?
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Live Longer Being an Optimistic Realist

Creating Your Perfect Day - Every Day.
What if every day was perfect for the rest of your life?
Your subconscious mind is a beautiful thing. You can use its power to design your life exactly how you imagine. Here’s how:
1) Write down an event-by-event vision of your perfect day. Yes, it’s a fantasy - for now.
2) There are no rules. No limitations. No consequences. Be honest about what you want. Don’t be shy.
3) Believe it can be yours! You deserve it.
If you follow these steps, your subconscious mind seeks to make your dreams come true. All it needs is a partner willing to take action. Do that, and you’ll create an extraordinary life.
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Creating Your Perfect Day - Every Day.

Are You Missing Your Future?
Have you noticed how everybody is running so fast these days?
Are they living in the moment? Are they dwelling on the past? Are they dreaming of the future - and waiting for it to arrive?
Any human would experience a combination of all three every day. That's normal as long as it doesn't get in the way of living.
A decade and a half ago, my first wife passed away from Cancer. She was 46 and too young to die. I was too young to be a widower. My children are too young to lose their Mom.  
While challenging, our family had an unconventional outlook on life - and death. Our goal was to make it the best death ever. Sadly, we achieved that goal. It was the strangest accomplishment any of us had ever experienced.
After she passed, my daughter, Carlyn, wrote a poem that resonates to this day -
Soon we'll all find our way.
Soon we'll know what.
Makes us who we are.
Soon we'll wake up.
Today, we can appreciate.
Soon we'll know that.
Tomorrow we'll be better.
Soon we'll trust that everything's okay.
That the past is gone.
Can't hold us back.
Soon we'll smile about today.
Soon will come too soon.
Don't let it slip away.
Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. Don't let it slip away.
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Are You Missing Your Future?

Billionaire Habits You Can Steal
Whatever you get in life is a result of your daily habits. What is a habit?
According to the dictionary, it is a settled or regular tendency or practice. It is also, especially, one that is hard to give up.
Good habits or bad - they are hard to give up. If that's the case, you may as well choose good habits.
In a survey of 233 self-made millionaires, here's what they did that lower-income earners didn't -
Get up early, read a LOT, and spend 15 - 30 minutes each day on focused thinking.
Good habits, done daily, create success.
Make exercise a priority, spend time with people that inspire them, and pursue their own goals.
Settled habits create settled success.
Get enough sleep, have multiple incomes, and avoid time-wasters.
If you're not getting the desired results, there is a high likelihood that you're not giving up your current habits.
Until you establish new habits, little will change. When you do, everything will change.
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Billionaire Habits You Can Steal

How Success Follows Intention
An epidemic infecting dreamers worldwide is nothing more than a dream buster.
Living a happy life, enjoying amazing relationships, and making more money? It seems that everyone has intention.
Some intentions are good. Some intentions are bad. In any case, moving from having intentions to succeed requires two steps:
1) Intention becomes actionable when you DECIDE to follow through on your intention. If not, nothing will happen. When you do, move on to the next step.
2) Once you’ve DECIDED to follow through on your intention, ACTION is required. What kind? Actions that form a direct path to your anticipated outcome.
Become the kind of person that knows what you want, decides to do it, and follows through until you get it. That’s how you become unstoppable!
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How Success Follows Intention

How to Focus and Achieve Your Goals
I was speaking with a young man who was doing something familiar. He was living in two realities:
1) He had finished school; one reality was pursuing his dream career. 
2) While he worked toward his dream, he earned a job certification to pay the bills.
During our conversation, he said something that got my attention. “I’m hoping I can get a good job supporting my dream.”
My ears perked up. Years of Coaching allow me to hear de-focused and dream-erasing thoughts loud and clear. 
Yes, everybody needs to pay their bills. However, what you focus on is what you get.
When the certainty of earning income becomes your focus, dreams disappear. What you focus on is what you get.
Most folks don’t notice their dreams are gone for twenty years. What you focus on is what you get.
Focus your mind and actions on turning your dreams into reality. Whatever you do to earn a living falls into the category of necessary and temporary.  
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How to Focus and Achieve Your Goals

How to Change Your Life in 30 Days or Less
Only a silly person thinks you can change everything about your life in 30 days - right?
Call me silly, but everything I've ever done was rooted in a 30-day sprint - even if I didn’t know it.
Here's how you do it:
1) Set what Napoleon Hill calls a Major Definite Purpose or a Big Ass Goal.
2) Stop negative self-talk. Others may throw sticks and stones; don't throw them at yourself.
3) List all the reasons you CAN be successful. Make it a long list.
4) Decide that you will do whatever it takes to reach your goal. For the next 30 days, nothing will stop you.
The impossible becomes possible when you are focused, willing to take massive imperfect action, and won't take no for an answer.
By the way…
When you seek or follow your purpose in life, your life will become one big non-stop happiness sprint.
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How to Change Your Life in 30 Days or Less

Permission is Not Required For Happiness
You do not need permission to live life according to your terms.
Researching your direction and path is smart. It’s okay to ask for advice and guidance. It’s even okay to persuade others to take the journey with you.
You don’t need permission to be yourself and live your life.  
You don’t need a big storyline.  
You don’t need approval from anyone else.  
You can start whenever you choose.
Here’s a secret that will help you adjust your mindset -
Most folks don’t care about you. They’re too busy thinking about themselves. If that’s the case, it sure seems silly to ask for permission - right?
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Permission is Not Required For Happiness

Setting Boundaries and Expectations
Imagine how your life would improve if everybody understood what to expect.
Expectations are powerful. You get to decide how you approach the world. Pay attention to these three questions:
1) What do you expect of yourself? 
2) What do you expect of others? Clearly, understand what you expect of others. That allows you to avoid surprises - and toxic relationships.
3) What do others expect of you? When you let others know what they can expect of you - and walk your talk - you are living with integrity.
Your life will always be more comfortable when you know what to expect of yourself and others.  
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Setting Boundaries and Expectations

Unavoidable Stages of Competence
When I was young, stupid, and wondering when I would understand life, I often turned to Zig Ziglar for a road map. 
Zig's Stages of Competence was what I needed:
1) Stage One is where we begin. We are "Unconscious Incompetent." We don't know what we don't know.
2) Stage Two is called "Conscious Incompetent." I spent a lot of time there. I used to say, "I have no idea what I'm doing - but at least I admit it."
3) Stage Three is "Unconscious Competent." People who have no idea how good they are. 
4) Stage Four is "Conscious Competent." That is your goal. To know what you are doing - and OWN it! 
Most people continue to another level that some call "Conscious Competence." The ability to recognize and develop Unconscious Competence in others.
You will become who you were meant to be when you learn how to get there, do the work, and recognize your achievement.
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Unavoidable Stages of Competence

Purpose Based Goals
Are you a goal-setter? 
Goals are the heartbeat of your life. Without Goals, life tends a meander with no real direction. 
Goals are GOOD.
But what happens when you miss your Goal? 
Yes, you might want to give up, but it’s not the end of the world. 
Missing a deadline doesn't always mean you missed your Goal. 
Missing a Goal only means that you are using a particular result to define achievement.
You might consider using outcome-based goal setting when your Goal doesn't need a specific "How" or "When." 
In other words, you'll get there when you get there.
Better yet, always make sure that your goals are fueling your purpose. When you do that, time doesn’t matter anymore.
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Purpose Based Goals

Life Changing Questions
I'll keep it quick today. Besides, you'll be busy thinking after you read these questions.
(Now would be a good time to pull out your journal and make a few notes.)
1) What do I want to do?
2) What do I want to have?
3) Where do I want to go?
4) What contribution do I want to make?
5) What do I want to become?
6) What do I want to learn?
7) Who do I want to spend my time with?
8) How much money do I want to earn, save, and invest?
9) How much time do I want off?
10) What will I do to create optimum health?
Your mind is now officially in a different place. Enjoy the ride.
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Life Changing Questions

How To Create More Time in Your Day
How would you like more time in your day - or at least to feel that way?
I hope to enjoy a fantastic weekend that will feel like a month. Like a vacation as a child that seemed to last forever. 
Wouldn't it be cool to capture that feeling every day?
It is possible to enjoy your own time machine when you understand that time is relative. Your perception of time will determine how you experience your day. 
Try this:
1) Embrace anticipation. Focus your excitement on what is to come instead of what is in the past.
2) Slow down. Being busy for the sake of being busy will make time seem to pass quickly. So will life.
3) Introduced LOTS of sensory input for your mind to ponder. Complex thoughts, colorful visuals, and even music will make it seem like your day is never-ending.
You may not be able to stop the world from spinning faster and faster. That doesn’t mean you have to participate.
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How To Create More Time in Your Day

Behavior Hacks That Change Everything
Your mind is the most powerful super-computer ever created. Here are a few ways to hack it and transform your life.
1) Start using a "Good Enough" approach. Perfectionism is doing nothing to move you forward.
2) Use your ONE mind to do ONE thing. Multitasking is splitting your focus and energy. It's also delaying your success.
3) Let go of control. Some things are not up to you. Figure out what they are and move on.
4) Say NO to anything that does not directly support your Goals. Do what you KNOW will get you what you want. Don't do something in hopes of getting what you want.
5) Hang out with supportive, positive, and nurturing people. Let toxic people create their own group.
6) Be willing not to be liked. If you avoid making folks unhappy, you're not moving toward your dreams.
7) Focus on the story of YOU. Minimize social media and television. When you do, you also minimize the influence others have on you.
Notice how most hacks are simply relying on yourself first. 
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Behavior Hacks That Change Everything

Mindset Shifts for a Better Life
"On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become." — Anonymous
You're smart. You're not going to let that happen to you - right? 
Here are seven mindset shifts to make sure you are living on purpose right now -
1) Live a good lifestyle. Eat good stuff and exercise.
2) Think long-term. Find your groove and stick with it.
3) Play BIG. Small thinking is not why you were born.
4) Be responsible. No more excuses. That’s the only way to be happy.
5) Learn to be more flexible. Stop being hard-headed. Go with the flow to get what you want.
6) Embrace hard work. There is no Magic Bullet.
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Mindset Shifts for a Better Life

You Don't Need Failure For Success
Have you ever wondered how to succeed in a long-term Goal? 
Without endless nights of crying yourself to sleep?
It won't help to remind you that everything is hard before it gets easy. Or that if it were easy, everybody would do it - right?
Try this:
1) Know what you want. Easy peasy.
2) Find a Coach and train, train, train. Get a real Coach. Counting on Google to help you master your new skill is not a good plan.
3) Trust your training while you practice, practice, practice. You'll get better. I promise.
4) Commit to continuing until you reach your Goal - no matter what.
Yes, it will be hard. Then again, you'll soon be one of those lucky people are blessed with a life others envy.
Finally -
Be sure to trust your most important Coach - YOU!
Listen to your gut, what is calling you, and keep moving forward.
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You Don't Need Failure For Success

How Big Do You Dream?
How big do you dream?
I hope it's not tiny. That would be a bummer.
Dreaming big is not really what you think. Please don't feel like you must save the world or be a Rock Star. Making millions of dollars doesn't always fit into that category, either.
Don't believe me? 
Why are so few folks unable to do that?
Living a stress-free life, spending time with family, or doing an excellent job for your employer is pretty big - right?
Dreaming big is about imagining something important to YOU - not anybody else. 
When you dream big, it becomes easy to set goals and take action to live your dream life.
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How Big Do You Dream?

Get What You Want… FAST!
Would you like a shortcut to getting anything you want in life?
Would you like to get there quicker, faster, and easier?
Since you're a mover and a shaker, you know the value of using goals in your day-to-day life. Goals are those magical gems that give you the power to turn your dreams into reality.
Here's the simple secret to achieving massive success with your goals.
Commit yourself ONLY to take action that moves you closer to your goal. Period.
Stay focused, say "No," and slice and dice the day to create motion in the direction of your choice. Keep going until you get there. 
Once you succeed, keep perfecting your actions until they run on autopilot.  
Your next great adventure can wait until you complete your current journey.
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Get What You Want… FAST!

Why Others See Your Greatness
 Whether in business, having a job, going to school, or living your life, your ability to present well will supercharge your success.
Here are five tips I use every day:
1) Understand that most folk only expect you to wow them. They are not expecting bad. You shouldn't either.
2) Join the conversation THEY already have inside their head, not the one YOU are having.
3) You'll move faster if you drop the small talk and dig into the meat of your communication. You can fill in additional information later.
4) The sooner you get people to suspend disbelief and engage with you, the sooner you will succeed.
5) Stop overkill. Find the first best place to take your exit and bring your meeting to an end.
You're going to be amazed at how well this works.
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Why Others See Your Greatness

Why Do You Procrastinate?
Are you a member of the Procrastination Club?
If so, you participate in one of the most popular groups ever devised. Everybody joins eventually.
So, what is procrastination?
"The intentional and habitual postponement of an important task that you should do now."
Is it possible that you are not procrastinating? 
Maybe you're just forcing yourself to do something you don't need or want to do anyway?
Maybe you're getting caught up in the caught up? Making busy, keeping up with the Jones?
There's so much you can do today. How many are you procrastinating, and how many should you toss off your list?
Remember…
When you do what fuels your soul you’ll never procrastinate again.
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