How to Totally Dominate Your 2016 Goals
I suppose you want to lose weight, eat better, spend less money, and devote more time to family, right? I don’t blame you! This is the time of year we’re all inspired to revamp our goals for the upcoming year and resolve to achieve them once and for all. But…
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How a Big City Lawyer Uses Weekly Planning to Accomplish More in 45 Hours Than Most Could Accomplish in 100
Editor’s note: Leading up to next week’s release of Early to Rise Editor Craig Ballantyne’s new book, The Perfect Day Formula, we’ll be sharing with you insights from some of ETR’s most influential and successful achievers in the coming days. All of these essays echo the wisdom of the advice and…
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Push Fear Aside — And Just Start
After ironing my button down shirt, looping my tie just so, pouring a cup of coffee in my to-go mug, and grabbing my lunch, I took a quick look in the mirror as I walked out the front door. Sigh. I was on my way to work, which on this…
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16 Things To Stop Doing In 2016
I’m not much into making New Years’ resolutions, but I have to say, it is a good time to self-reflect, reassess goals, and create a plan for the upcoming year. This year, my husband and I made it a habit of going on “retreats,” from the advice of Craig Ballantyne.…
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Three Words That Will Change Your Life
Talk about a model prisoner… In 1985, Fleet Maull began serving a 14-year sentence for drug trafficking. During his incarceration, he completed a Ph.D. in Psychology, authored a well-received book, became an ordained priest, founded a prison hospice program and launched the Prison Dharma Network, a non-profit organization that supports…
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Eliminate Holiday Stress in a Snap…
Stress, especially during the holidays, seems to be an inevitable part of our fast paced lives. In many ways stress is healthy — short-term stress is protective, not harmful generating alertness, building resiliency, boosting immunity, and even motivating you to succeed. But our modern lifestyles seem to encourage chronic stress…
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The Truth About Luck and Success
Luck has been in my corner since day one back in 1975. I was extraordinarily lucky to be born in Canada into a lower-middle class family. Lucky enough to have been educated in the years of the first home computer, to have come of age with the first Internet generation, and…
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The Best of 2015: Craig Ballantyne
From the editors: The end of the year is a time of reflection. To that end, ETR editors have picked the best of this past year’s essays from Craig Ballantyne, Mark Ford and Joanne Stern to share with you this week. Whether you’ve been with us all year, or are…
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What to Do When You Hit Rock Bottom
It was Thanksgiving of 2002. I had just hit rock bottom. Fired from my job for being incompetent, it felt as though I had lost my self-identity and self-worth. I was 27 years old. What should have been the prime of my life instead left me facing my darkest days.…
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How to Achieve What You Want in Life
When it comes to contemplating what you want to achieve in life, this quote, for the most part, is true. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napolean Hill It’s worked for me countless times in my life, most notably the goal of having a business “just…
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Do You Make Fear Decisions or Growth Decisions?
I was afraid I was going to lose my biggest client. And my job. So I let him yell at me repeatedly. I met a friend of mine. She said, “My grandma told me there are only two types of decisions: Decisions made out of fear and decisions made out…
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How to Discover Your Talents
A young man in one of my seminars came up to me and said that he was working as a plumber for a large contracting firm. He made good money, but he was envious of the salespeople in his company who made more money, drove nicer cars, wore nicer clothes,…
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