My New Hero

We all need heroes in life. People to inspire us and live out the success archetype so we can see that greatness can and still does unfold. I found this in a new way for myself over the last few days. Last night I went to bed excited and inspired. And I woke up the same way. …

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The Magic Button

If there was a button you could push, to bring you what you want, …like a wish from a genie in a magic lamp, Would you push it? Each day of our lives this button stares us in the face, begging for a finger punch by asking one simple question. What do you want? Not, what …

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Optional

Many of the rules we think are rules in life and business aren’t really rules. They’re just things someone said we should do at some point along the way that no one ever stopped to question. Steve Jobs Said: When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is …

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If You Build It

In the movie field of dreams, there is a line, “If you build it, they will come.” One thing that used to stop me from building the blog making the call speaking at the event or _________________ (fill in the blank) …was the fear that if I opened my mouth, there’d be nothing there. The fear …

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Useful

What do Elon Musk, Seth Godin and my brother in law have in common? They all strive to be useful. I tell my kid’s to watch to for this quality in their uncle Brandon. He makes it easy for them to see. The other day he shows up to our house and installs the motion sensor …

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The Essence of Santa

It’s 5:18 AM on Christmas morning.  3 of our 4 boys were up a 1:30 AM then again at 4:30. Luckily, for my lovely wife Corene, (AKA sleeping beauty) they’re watching some Scooby Doo in an effort to give her a few more moments of Christmas snooze.  🙂 Someone came to visit us yesterday and told us …

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Magic Rocks

In our book of the month for December, The Magic, Rhonda Byrne talks about having a gratitude rock. The idea is that each night before bed, you hold the rock in your hand and think back through all the great things that happened to you that day. Then, you pick the best one. As you’re …

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The Ethical Theft of Greatness

Tony Robbins talks about modeling a lot. But then, I remember a story from one of his books, where a former employee was using some of his material, without authorization. Initially, this made him mad. Modeling vs. Theft, what’s the difference? If you become a carbon copy of someone, saying exactly what they say, doing exactly what they …

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Rich

One great thing we’ve been doing together as a family is having a short lesson each night and discussion before bed. Last night we read a small thought from Luke which said, “A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” A recent story came to mind of a local man …

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Franciscos Wisdom

I was talking to subscriber and fellow freedom crusader Francisco Hernandez the other day and he said something, I thought, was wise. I asked him what he was looking for in a home business and aside from the amount of income he’s working towards and why he’s working towards it, he mentioned something extra. He …

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