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How to Be Confident (When You’re Shakin’ In Your Boots)!

June 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Courage and 169 Minutes of Terror

Trudging from the theater, my mind was foggy. I was completely disoriented by what I’d just witnessed.

It was like I had been there.

The skies were gray and angry. The seas churned and spat.

The doors fell open. Wave after wave, young men rolled up on the shore, welcomed by the barrage of the machine gun fire.

Some ducked and dodged. Others didn’t have the chance.

Normandy.

D-Day.

June 4, 1944

The opening moments of Saving Private Ryan changed me. It has been 14 years since I saw that footage, but I will never forget it.
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017: AWAKE! Podcast – How to Develop Confidence and Courage

The only way to produce confidence is to be courageous enough to face your fears and step into them.  Taking action, produces results and creates momentum.

Results + Momentum = Confidence

Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options.  Make a decision, take action, then evaluate.  The time to evaluate is after you’ve begun to produce results.

This episode will teach you how to build courage in trusting your intuition. You will learn several ways to identify that you are on the “right track”.

You’ll also learn why it is so essential that you begin to create results in order to build confidence.

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How to Accept Criticism as a Gift

June 14, 2012 by 5 Comments

You experience criticism. I experience criticism. We all experience criticism.  Perhaps you try to avoid it all costs. If so, it may seem difficult to see the gift in criticism.

I want to show you how because it will transform the way you live and will help strengthen your sense of confidence and  personal power.

Over the next 3 weeks, I’m going to be covering 3 areas that many of us struggle with when following our dreams–criticism, building confidence, and setting boundaries. [Read more...]

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How to Bring Certainty to an Uncertain Situation

June 7, 2012 by 6 Comments

Do you do everything in your power to avoid uncertainty in your life?  Most of us do.

Let me tell you a secret: You gotta give it up!

You will never be able to fortify your life against uncertainty.

The only thing you can be certain of is that life is uncertain
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This may seem like a strange assertion in a post about how to bring certainty to the uncertainty, so let me explain.

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Spilled Milk to You is a Windfall to Your Cat

May 31, 2012 by 2 Comments

“The loss isn’t real until you sell!”

I was sitting in my high school economics class when the instructor delivered this insight on investing.

“It’s only a paper loss. You don’t actually lose the money until you sell,” he explained.

In the game of life, the aphorism is, loss is only real when you believe it is. Tweet It!

Loss

Loss is a myth.

You waste your life dreading, avoiding and fearing loss.  You do everything in your power to prevent it.

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How to Free Yourself from The Pain Prison of Disappointment

May 24, 2012 by 4 Comments

Have you ever been paralyzed by this thought?

My _____________ will be so disappointed
(fill in the blank–family/friends/boss, etc.)

I have been.

The pain of disappointing those we care about is devastating and it can keep us chained in life, unable to move forward. [Read more...]

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How to Banish That “I Don’t Know What to Do” Feeling Forever!

April 26, 2012 by 20 Comments

“I just don’t know what to do”

Have you ever said this to someone?

To yourself?

Uncertainty is one of the most frustrating experiences in  life.  A lack of clarity makes you feel drained–mentally and emotionally, unsure and unmotivated. [Read more...]

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010: AWAKE! Podcast – How to Banish “I Don’t Know What to Do” Forever!

“I don’t know what to do!”

Have you said this…to yourself or to someone else?  Has someone said it to you?

This episode is all about banishing “I don’t know what to do” from your life. You don’t have to live in uncertainty and doubt.

You can get rid of the frustration of uncertainty by following this simple shift in belief.  I’ll tell you how on this episode.

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009: AWAKE! Podcast – How to Live with Greater Purpose

This week’s episode is all about finding greater meaning and purpose. I share my own personal experience searching for my purpose and why I wasted many years in the process.

I explain why I think you should quit looking for your purpose and instead, learn to value it.

I talk about what is required to live a life of purpose and meaning and issue a challenge.

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You Don’t Need to Look for Your Purpose, You Need to Grab It By The Balls!!!

April 10, 2012 by 32 Comments

 

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I thought I had to search for it too.  And so I did.

For five years.

I’ve gotta find it. I’ve gotta find it, I told myself. And the more desperately I searched, the more it seemed to elude me.

PURPOSE

You can be like me and waste the next five years (or 10 or 20) looking for your passion and purpose.
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