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Personal Development Posts

June 9, 2023

The Bank Robber (All Good Will Be Attacked)

All good will be attacked.  For the last several months I’ve been going through the six pieces you need in place to get through the cycles of complexity that life throws at you. These pieces are: Ethos – which is your philosophy a…

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June 9, 2023

Book Summary vs. Reading - Is It Better To Read Books Or Summaries? My Take on Summaries

Should you read the entire book? I see a lot of comments on Amazon and Audible when I'm searching for books that I wanna read and people say things like, "Everything the author had to teach could have been taught in 10 pages," or other such comments…

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June 8, 2023

4 Thoughts For Dealing With The UPS and DOWNS Of Your Life

I am not a doctor, and this post is not a cure for any actual disease. I'm referencing people going through the normal ups and downs of life. If your ups and downs don't seem normal to you, seek some professional guidance. If I was having chest pain…

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June 7, 2023

The Wrong Kind of Hope

I was introduced to personal development in my teens, which gave me a decent but clearly imperfect mental attitude. I was headed in the wrong direction, and I hated the thought of working at a job 40 hours a week for the rest of my life. But I didn'…

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June 6, 2023

My Vision Is Clearer Than Ever

Have you ever wondered if you are going down the road you were meant to go on? Your vision, your mission – these can be elusive, and since we’re the only ones that get to say if we’re right or not, we have to be able to trust ourse…

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June 6, 2023

Are you droopy and wilting? Try THIS!

Have you ever struggled with negative thoughts? A time when you knew you were being pessimistic and negative, but you just couldn’t flip the switch? You couldn’t turn it around? I’ve been there – I still get there sometimes &…

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June 5, 2023

Don't Find Your Why - Choose It!

In my show, I've been discussing the pieces of the puzzle we need to get through the cycles of complexity that life is constantly throwing at us in our relationships, work, and health.  These are Ethos, Intention, Efficacy, Agency, Adversity, …

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June 5, 2023

Five Years From Now, You Will Surely Arrive...But Where?

In 5 years, if you are in exactly the same place as you are today, will you be okay with that? If you look around at your life in 5 years and you have all the same stuff, and all the same joys, and all the same problems, will that satisfy you? For…

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June 4, 2023

How to get past, through, over, or under any obstacle and become what you were meant to be.

Cycles of Complexity – How to Get Through Anything Murphy’s Laws. I’m sure you know the most popular one which goes “if anything can go wrong, it will.” Murphy was not the most positive guy. He would not have made a ve…

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June 4, 2023

How and Until. Two words for expanding your ability.

I’ve been talking about the Cycles of Complexity and how to get through any of the tough things life throws at us. I’ve narrowed these categories into Ethos, Intention, Efficacy, Agency, Adversity, and Elevation Your Efficacy is your ab…

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