How to Stop Holding Yourself Back
A lot of people have the E-brake on. Here’s what that means. When things don’t work out in our businesses — or at work — we often blame other people or the circumstances. You blame your co-workers. You blame the people you hired. You blame the marketing or sales team.…
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There’s No Speed Limit (The lessons that changed my life)
Whether you’re a student, teacher, or parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and permanently change someone’s life in only a few lessons. I met Kimo Williams when I was 17 — the summer after I graduated high school in Chicago, a few months…
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How to Stay Motivated
In yesterday’s essay we talked about the three big emotions driving sales: 1. Positive Expectancy 2. Pain 3. Urgency What your customers say they want (money, health, happiness), is not always what they actually want. Most of the time your customers are looking for validation that if they wanted to achieve these life goals they…
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Using the 5/25 Rule to Learn to Say ‘No’
When I was 12 I was obsessed with a book on my parents’ shelf. “Don’t Say Yes When You Want to Say No”. A pop psychology book from the 70’s all about sex. I would pretend to be sick. Stay home from school. Read the book over and over again,…
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Creative Kryptonite and the Death of Productivity
Great work, brilliant ideas, extraordinary art requires space. Time away. Room to process, synthesize, allow connections between seemingly disparate parts to effervesce out of the ether of the mind. Genius is the offspring of the in-between. But, increasingly, technology is removing the in-between. We don’t just walk in contemplation, we walk, talk…
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Early to Rise Fitness & Nutrition expert Missi Holt shares her insights on health and wellness with our readers daily. But today, we’re changing things up and putting Missi on the spot to ask her some of the questions those of us here in the Denver ETR office — and…
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The Maxim for Every Successful Person; ‘Always Stay a Student’
The legend of Genghis Khan has echoed throughout history: A barbarian conqueror, fueled by bloodlust, terrorizing the civilized world. We have him and his Mongol horde traveling across Asia and Europe, insatiable, stopping at nothing to plunder, rape, and kill not just the people who stood in their way, but…
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‘I Am Not Your Guru’ Review
Last week I watched the new Tony Robbins documentary “I Am Not Your Guru” on Netflix. Overall, I thought the documentary was just, meh. About half way through I got bored and stopped paying attention — but I did come away with two thoughts: 1) Tony Robbins swears A LOT 2) Desperation feeds on…
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The Power of Loneliness
Everyone loves the David Bowie hit, “Starman.” “There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us but he thinks he’d blow our minds.” Only…the song is not about a star man. It’s about the loneliness of two boys. The song starts with a boy late…
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Becoming Aware of the Stories We Tell Ourselves
There’s a hidden mechanism that creates unhappiness, difficulty changing habits, relationship problems, frustration, anger and disappointment. Barely anyone is aware of this hidden mechanism, even though it’s happening all the time, in all of us. It’s the stories we tell ourselves. We do it all day long: we tell ourselves…
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There is No Virtue in Hiding
For two years I sat in the back of the class listening, taking notes, but never engaging. I regret those two years. It wasn’t until my third year in University, when I shed this attitude and started sitting at the front of my lectures, raising my hand, engaging my profs…
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STOP Doing it All: Identify What Really Matters
The quest to identify what really matters in your life doesn’t have to be difficult. Earlier this year in Lithuania, at the BlackSmith Liberty and Entrepreneurship Camp, I gave a speech about the importance of creating a vision for your life. “With a clear and concise vision,” I said, “You…
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