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You won’t have the same friends 20 years from now.

How many directions is your brain going right now?

“Set it, and forget it!” - Ron Popeil

And not accidentally become someone else.

Train yourself to immediately excite upon waking.

Singleness of purpose.

3 simple truths to create a profound shift.

Here is a list of important things to remember and apply as you go through the ups and downs of creating a bigger, better future.

And how I’ve actually done it

10 Science-Based Ways To Increase Your HOPE

In 2020, we need HOPE more than anything else.

Are Lesser and Lesser Quality Distractions “Getting You”?

The slow boil to mediocrity.

And also write about the greatest experiences you’ve had to this point.

Having a short memory makes you emotionally bulletproof.

“Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy — it must come as an unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.” — Viktor E. Frankl

The 100 Percent Rule That Makes Life a Lot Easier

“It’s easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.” —Clayton Christensen

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” — Leonardo da Vinci

Rather than asking: “What would I like to do today?” you could ask, “What would my future self want me to do today?”

This Is How You Become Confident And Transform Your Life

Situational factors can easily throw you off course. It’s easy to lose sight of who you are, or who you want to be.

You Train The World How To Treat You

“Be careful what you tolerate, you are teaching people how to treat you.”—Unknown

Parkinson’s Law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

This 10-Minute Routine Will Increase Your Clarity And Creativity

“Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you sleep.” — Napoleon Hill

“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.”—Unknown

To be absolutely clear: If you wake up at 5AM for 30 days straight, your entire life will change.

“Commitment is a statement of what ‘is’. You can know what you’re committed to by your results, not by what you say your commitments are.”—Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp

“All progress starts by telling the truth.”—Dan Sullivan

Overtime, you’ll really love that sleep, especially if you’re waking up earlier and getting more done.

You Miss Every Shot You Don’t Take

There is an enormous amount of resistance to “taking shots.”

How to 10X Your Income and Evolve as a Person

“Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy.”—Gay Hendricks

How to Become Your Future Self

If you look at your present and future selves as two different people, then your likelihood of making better decisions here and now will improve.

Only 1% of Americans Do This Essential Daily Habit

​Only 3% of Americans have written goals. Only 1% of Americans rewrite their goals on a daily basis.

How to Increase Your Motivation In 2-Minutes Per Day

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates.” — Pearson’s Law

Gratitude: How To Change Negative Beliefs, Be Happy, And Become Successful

Life is harder now because our world is designed to distract us. Our world is more confusing than ever. This is no secret.

Why Most People Never Get What They Want

Life is confusing. It will misinform you if you don’t know who you are, what you stand for, and what you want. It can feel almost impossible to live your dreams.

This iPhone Feature Will Improve Your Relationships (and the Rest of Your Life)

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”— Dr. Wayne Dyer

Unsuccessful People Focus On “The Gap.” Here’s What Successful People Focus On.

“The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal.”— Dan Sullivan, THE GAIN AND THE GAP”

Confidence: 2 Reasons Most People Don’t Have It

“According to Bandura: Self-efficacy is defined as people’s beliefs regarding their capacity 1) to succeed and 2) to attain a given level of performance.

10 Steps to Become a Millionaire in 5 Years (or Less)

“When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”— Napoleon Hill

6 Things You Need to Recover From Every Day

“Typically, we have a window of about three hours where we’re really, really focused. ”—Ron Friedman

To Have What You Want, You Must Give-Up What’s Holding You Back

“Don’t think. You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?” —Tim Grover

Go To The Next Level Of Your Life Before You Feel Ready

“Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”— Ray Bradbury

How To Become More Intelligent (According to Einstein)

““The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”— Albert Einstein

Life Doesn’t Reward You For What You Know, But For What You Do

“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”— Dr. Stephen Covey

This Morning Routine Will Make You Unstoppable

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.” — Richard Whately

To Have Freedom In Your Life, Stop Avoiding This One Thing

Your brain wants your life to be predictable. Your emotions want your life to be stable. But stability and predictability are, interestingly, how you stay stuck and in survival-mode.

Here’s How To Become Courageous And Stop Following The Pack

“Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.”— Pablo Picasso

30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable

According to the British philosopher, Alain de Botton, “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.”

The Scientific Process To Heal Any Emotional Trauma

“A trauma can be defined as any significant negative event or incident that shaped us.” — Dr. Lisa Firestone

This 10-Minute Night Routine Guarantees Success Your Next Morning

“Design trumps willpower.” — B.J. Fogg, Stanford psychologist

How To Upgrade Your Subconscious “Normal” Every 90 Days

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A New Way To Read/Listen To Books Based On Brain Science

“A good shock often helps the brain that has been atrophied by habit.”— Napoleon Hill

How To Fully Commit To Goals That Terrify You

“Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose.”— Benjamin Disraeli

Our Adoptive Children’s Mom Died. Here’s the Biggest Lesson Learned

“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” —David O. McKay

These 20 Pictures Will Teach You More Than Reading 100 Books

“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”― Seth Godin

Want More Energy And Bigger Results? Stop Asking “HOW” And Start Asking “WHO”

“Focus on WHO instead of HOW”— Dean Jackson

Want to Become the Best at What You Do? Read this.

It doesn’t matter how good your strategy is, if you’re not skilled at what you do, that strategy won’t take you very far.

This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Hours Per Week

Although this may be obvious given people’s mediocre performance, addiction to stimulants, lack of engagement, and the fact that most people hate their jobs,  now there’s loads of scientific evidence you can’t ignore.

How To Learn In 2 Days What Normally Takes 6 Months

Research has found that having clarity about your goals is essential to having motivation to achieve those goals.

50 Ways Happier, Healthier, And More Successful People Live On Their Own Terms

“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
— Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Why You Should be Planning for 2021, Not 2020.

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” —Tony Robbins

How To Change Your Life In 30 Days

My favorite example is the research on self-efficacy (confidence), which shows that confidence isn’t what produces high performance. But rather, that high performance is what produces confidence.

Willpower Doesn’t Work. Here’s How to Actually Change Your Life.

Whether you want to get healthier, stop using social media so much, improve your relationships, be happier, write a book, or start a business — willpower won’t help you with any of these things.

Mediocrity is a Virus. Here’s How to Banish it from Your Life.

When you justify and allow even little things into your life which your intuition warns you against, you permit a virus to enter your life. It spreads to other areas.

10 Habits That Change Boys Into Men

The demise of our culture will result from the demise of its men if something isn’t changed quickly. Far too many men remain directionless, devastated and scared children.

Surround Yourself with People Who Hold You to a Higher Standard than You Hold Yourself

There’s some interesting research in social psychology explaining how most people form their peer groups. Especially as children and adolescents, but often as adults, people select their friends based on proximity more than anything else.

13 Things That Will Happen When You “Level-Up” As A Person

According to meta-analytic data, confidence isn’t what leads to success. Instead, successful behavior is what creates confidence.

21 Behaviors That Will Make You Brilliant at Creativity & Relationships

When you see things from multiple perspectives, you realize you can achieve almost anything you want in far less time than you imagined. Yet most people have fixed and limited views about themselves and what they can accomplish.

How To Make Quantum Leaps Personally And Professionally

The roles you play in life determine your identity and behavior.

The 2 Mental Shifts Highly Successful People Make

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”— Max Planck, German quantum theorist and Nobel Prize winner

One Decision Separates The Wealthy From The Non-Wealthy

The problem with most people’s lives is that they are being shielded from the consequences of their behavior. There’s little to no accountability.

If You Don’t Believe in Setting Goals, It’s Because You Don’t Know How To Do It

If you have a growth mindset, you operate with faith. You believe in something you can’t see. You believe you can actually get better at something, even though that growth is currently only visible in your mind.

If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing

“We buy things to make us happy, and we succeed. But only for a while. New things are exciting to us at first, but then we adapt to them,” —Dr. Thomas Gilovich, Cornell psychologist.

Why Keeping a Daily Journal Could Change Your Life

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” —J.M. Barrie

Tell Me What You Say Yes to, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” —Warren Buffett

How to Create Rare And Life-Changing Relationships With Anyone (even your heroes)

“You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving.” —John Wooden

How To Achieve Your 10-Year Plan In The Next 6 Months

“How can you achieve your 10 year plan in the next 6 months?” —Peter Thiel

This 6-Word Sentence Will Give You Complete Freedom And High Performance

“Expect everything and attach to nothing.” —Carrie Campbell

The #1 Reason To Set “Unrealistic” Goals (And It’s Not Achieving The Goal)

“Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.” —Jim Rohn

This 15–30 Minute Routine Makes Your Brain Healthier, Younger, And Smarter

“Everything popular is wrong” —Oscar Wilde

This 2-Step 10-Minute Exercise Creates Immediate Self-Awareness

“Play leads to brain plasticity, adaptability, and creativity… Nothing fires up the brain like play.” —Stuart Brown

Tell Me What You Did Today, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are

“Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.” —Russell Nelson

If You Don’t Use It, You’ll Lose It

“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.” —Zig Ziglar

How To Know If You’ll Be Successful

“Life is a game, play it.” —Mother Theresa

Want To Become A Multi-Millionaire? Do These 15 Things Immediately.

“When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.” —Robert Kiyosaki

Gratitude Journaling Doesn’t Really Work… But This REALLY Does, Though.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero

How to Reach the Next Stage of Your Personal Evolution

“Every next level of your life will demand a different you.” —Leonardo DiCaprio

How To Deal With Uncomfortable Emotions And Reshape Your Identity

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” —Jack Canfield

Free Will & Willpower Are Becoming a Thing of the Past. Here’s What You Can Do About It.

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.” —Stephen R. Covey

8 Proven Performance Practices from Billionaires and Elite Athletes

“We are at our most alert when we are in danger of failing. The greatest growth comes from being alert, scared, and striving.” —Dan Sullivan

The Only Thing Powerful Enough To Overcome Everything Holding You Back

“Just be yourself” is a terrible platitude for accepting the random attributes of character you’ve acquired thus far.” —David Heinemeier Hansson

How to Turn Journal Ramblings into Viral Articles

“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” —Thomas Edison

3 Ways People Become Stuck, Undeveloped, and Unsuccessful

The belief that who you are at birth is who you ARE, is a “fixed” mindset. Don’t buy into it. You can always change.

What Happens When You Take Full Responsibility of Your Life

“Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.” —Michael Jordan

TRUST YOURSELF: A practical guide to achieve any goal and live beyond fear

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” —Mahatma Gandhi

How To Know If You’ll Live Your Dreams

“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” —The Alchemist

How to 1) Get Into Peak States, 2) Make Bold Decisions, 3) Invest In Yourself, and 4) Achieve Your Most Audacious Goals

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

13 Ways to Get Others Financially and Emotionally Invested in Your Goals

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar

Why Even Ambitious People Rarely Become Successful

“Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.” —Jim Rohn

Here’s How Successful People Avoid Information Overwhelm

“I’m pretty oblivious to a lot of things intentionally. I don’t want to be influenced that much.” —Jason Fried

Responsibility: Not Apologizing When You Succeed Or Complaining When You Fail

“We control our actions, but the consequences that flow from those actions are controlled by principles.” —Stephen R. Covey

The 3 Requirements For Huge Success (According to Science and Billionaires)

“The bigger the ‘why’ the easier the ‘how’.” —Jim Rohn

18 Quotes That (if applied) Will Make You More Successful

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” —Abraham Lincoln

This 12-Word Quote Entirely Explains How To Be Successful

“Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.” —Florence Shinn

How to Gamify Your Life to Quickly Accomplish Big Goals

“It’s not who you know. It’s who you help.” —Jeff Goins

Your Answer to this Question will Determine Your Success in Life

“Will reaching this goal bring me closer to or further from my major objective in life?” —Zig Ziglar

Anything Is Possible If You Pay The Price

You can learn, have, or be anything if you are willing to pay the price.

How to Consistently Act From Your Deepest “Why” and Optimize Your Time

“This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.” —Ryan Holiday

How To Be Free From All Emotional Blocks And Fears

“You always get out of life exactly what you tolerate.” —Tony Robbins

This One Question Will Make Every Decision In Your Life Easier

Combine 1) being thoughtful and deliberate about your future with 2) the use of implantation intentions to get there — and you’re bound for success.

How To Develop Mastery, Make Millions, and Be Happy

“Everything popular is wrong.” —Oscar Wilde

10 Ways to Make Peak-State Decisions and Invest in Yourself

“The bigger the dream, the more important the team.” —Robin Sharma

4 Steps to Getting Anything You Want In Life

“Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.” —Jim Rohn

14 Strategies To Accelerate Your Personal Growth By 1,000%

“Our eyes only see and our ears only hear what our brain is looking for.” —Dan Sullivan

How to Live ON PURPOSE and Maximize Every Freaking Day

“Most of us have two lives: the life we live and the un-lived life within us. Between the two stands resistance.” —Steven Pressfield

The Only Way To “Wake Up” And Become Unstoppable

“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” —Rhett Butler

This Is How You Train Your Brain To Get What You Really Want

“Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.” —Darren Hardy