How to Find Your Life Purpose: An Unconventional Approach
Let’s say you’re feeling unmotivated, unsure of yourself, aimless, can’t find your passion, directionless, not clear on what your purpose in life is. You’re in good company — most people are in the same boat. Now, there about a million things online telling you how to find your passion in life, and…
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Do You Suffer From “Status Anxiety?”
Depressed you don’t own a new car? It could be Status Anxiety.
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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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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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Your Family System — Open or Closed?
A family system that is closed will be restrictive and negative, where as an open family system is one of joy and encouragement. Which do you cultivate?
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Think About This Christmas Morning
Woo hoo! I have great news to brighten your already amazing Christmas season! It was a very special weekend here at Early To Rise. Every December we bring our business partners, family, and friends together to visit local Wal-Marts where we buy as many toys as possible to give to…
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What Are You Saying NO To?
This is what I did to ruin my life. I had a policy: always say “yes” to opportunity. If you grab enough opportunities, I thought, then one would work out and be a winner. What does “a winner” mean? It might mean that the goddess, Oprah, would call me. Or that…
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Making Every Day Thanksgiving
Here it is, Thanksgiving again. I love Thanksgiving because it brings back a lot of great childhood memories — turkey, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, five or six desserts, the Packers and Lions doing battle on our black-and-white television set, snow flurries, the long weekend and, best of all, family. Most everyone loves the festive atmosphere…
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The Most Important Moment
A marriage, a friendship, a close family relationship… All of our important relationships are built on countless moments, innumerable interactions that either build qualities of trust, joy, and respect – or undermine those qualities. Today I want to show you what is arguably the most important moment for building a…
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Preparing for the Death of a Parent
Yesterday I asked my friend Randy if he wanted to attend my upcoming seminar. “Craig, I’d love to,” he said, “But my father has been in and out of the hospital recently, and I just can’t risk going away and missing out on the time he has left.” I know…
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“To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds.” – Thich Nhat Hanh In 1970, Swami Rama, who was raised in the Himalayan caves and since the age of three had trained in the closely guarded secrets of yoga, walked into an American research laboratory.…
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