What’s Your Story?
All of us tell stories about ourselves. Stories define us. To know someone well is to know her story – the experiences that have shaped her, the trials and turning points that have tested her. When we want someone to know us, we share stories of our childhoods, our families,…
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The Worry That You’re Doing the Wrong Thing Right Now
It’s first thing in your workday, and you open up your email. There’s a host of messages, old and new, asking for your attention. You also open up other inboxes in social media and the like. You quickly go through them and get a picture of what you need to…
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Maximize Your Time No Matter How Busy You Get
On some level, most everyone seems to think of him or herself as a procrastinator. A lot of us may think we are, but alas, we really aren’t. I don’t think you are truly a procrastinator unless someone else has recognized you as a procrastinator multiple times. This is an…
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Better Than a To-Do List
The other night I had a dream. But it was not a good one. Perhaps it was my restless legs and weary body from the hours of exercise video filming I had done earlier in the day that brought upon this devilish dream. In the dream I was giving a…
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The #1 Priority in Your Day
Everything was going according to plan. I was 30 minutes early and the film crew was all ready to go. We had six short scripts to record along with one long PowerPoint-based presentation. I was going to be done early, or so I thought, before, of course, things went wrong.…
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The Power of Doing This Daily
It has been my favorite book of 2013. Full of amazing stories, out-of-this-world characters, and vivid details, you might mistake it for the latest Stephen King novel. But it’s not about haunted houses or demon-possessed cars. Instead, this new book opens a window into the history of the world’s greatest…
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Make This Your Servant
The Titan of industry sat in a courtroom defending himself against an overzealous public attorney. The charges? Ignorance. “Isn’t it true, Mr. Big Shot,” the attorney sneered at the defendant, “That you are ignorant of what’s going on around you in the world?” “Yes, I’m guilty of that,” the Titan…
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How to Meet Important Deadlines
A good friend of mine with a beautiful young wife, loads of energy, and plenty of ambition, makes the mistake of working too much, too late at night. You can probably relate. And like him, you also have better things to do with your free time. He recently wrote, “I…
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The Importance of Your Daily Ritual
Nearly every weekday morning for a year and a half, I got up at 5:30, brushed my teeth, made a cup of coffee, and sat down to write about how some of the greatest minds of the past four hundred years approached this exact same task— that is, how they…
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Your Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Dreams
On the cold, clear morning of December 27th, 2010, I had to rush my mom to the hospital. She had been experiencing chest pain for a couple of days, she later told me, and things were getting worse. As I waited in the Emergency Room to hear from the doctors,…
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The Harsh Reality About Your Time
Having recently had another birthday click over on the odometer, time is on my mind. It’s never far from it in my work-cave, because I have strategically placed more than a dozen clocks around the room and can’t look in any direction without seeing one. As I describe in my…
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2 Lessons from Vegas
We’d been in Las Vegas for four days, and as always we’d had some amazing dinners (at Joe’s Prime Seafood) and a few Black Russians to celebrate, all while creating some great business breakthroughs for our clients. Another great trip, another fantastic Mastermind. That’s how Bedros and I do Vegas.…
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