In this article, I am going to share some helpful ideas to help you turn your hopes, wishes, and dreams into your future reality.

Goals and buildings have several characteristics that are very similar. If a building is engineered properly, and built with structural integrity; when the storms blow, the building stands; when the earth shakes, the building stands. If a building lacks that structural integrity, the storms force is likely to reduce it to rubble. Your goals are the same way.

If your goals are engineered with the proper dynamics in place; when adversity strikes, your goals will stay clear; when the unexpected happens; you will adapt and move closer to your objective and Read More...

My arrival in Saginaw, Michigan on May 26th 1990 was filled with hope and eager anticipation. It was the beginning of my professional life: my first real job. After completing a weeklong training school in Nashville, I was deployed to Eastern Michigan to perform sales and customer service for a national publishing company.

Several weeks into my budding career, I was keen on improving my performance. So, naturally I attended a workshop. At the training, I was introduced to a man named Scott, who had worked with the company for the last three years. We worked in virtually the same territory, selling the same products. In my mind, I imagined him to be the perfect person to share ideas and Read More...

Freedom Personal Development’s president and CEO, Eric Plantenberg, was interviewed last week by Joe Abraham on Blog Talk Radio. 

Jay wanted to know how you can run a successful business and not let it run you.

As a business owner, Eric is a prime example of an entrepreneur that has walked the talk of not letting your business run your life. He has had the freedom to take months away from his business to travel the world while still maintaining an impressive record of sales growth. He shares a system for dismantling stress and living a life of freedom.

Eric walks you through Read More...

I first learned of Tom Peters in 1995 when I listened to his program In Search of Excellence. His ideas and advice has been invaluable to me for more than a decade now.

Over the years I can think of no other business authority that has a clearer understanding of what works and what doesn’t. In my opinion, if you are looking for a model of management excellence look to Tom Peters.

Mr. Peters was recently asked how people can deal with the current challenges that this economy is posing. Below Read More...

I recently received this email from a client that attended one of our Memory Training Workshops.  I just love hearing success stories from our graduates and wanted to share it with our blog readers.  If you have a memory training success story to share, send me an email at eric@deliverfreedom.com or post a comment below. 
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Dear Eric,

I cannot begin to tell you how good I am getting with names.

I was at the orthodontist last week for my invisilign and was telling the two gals who were working on me about the class. I just happened to look at their badges Read More...

Here is another question from one of our Memory Training Workshop graduates regarding having multiple to-do lists, for instance one for personal and one for business tasks. 
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Dear Eric,

We own our own business and have dozens of request and/or tasks, both personal and business that we need to address each day. Our question is, what is the most efficient way to memorize this. i.e. do we attach business to-do’s to our body and also attach personal items to our body, or do we keep them separate? i.e. business to-do’s on our body file, and Read More...

Here is a question from one of our Memory Training Workshop graduates regarding the benefits of memorizing a grocery list vs. writing it down.
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Hi Eric,

Great class on Monday and Tuesday. We appreciated your time and patience. We were discussing the memory training and a question we were hoping you could answer.

What are the most optimal or efficient ways to use the memory training vs. actually writing items down on a piece of paper?

i.e. I go to the grocery store every two weeks. I run out of food items during the course of the week, so I Read More...

Download The Magic of 3 Letters The AND Principle mp3
(1. Right click the link 2. Choose “Save Target As”)

The And Principle is one of my favorite methods of getting off to a quick start with a new project or a new goal. It’s also a sure-fire way to quickly fix a slump. It’s very simple.

Here’s how it works: Every performance is broken down into two components. It has an effort and then it has a result. What the And Principle focuses on is you achieving both the effort and the result before you stop working on that Read More...

Henry Ford once said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” 

Jim Roan teaches that formal education will get you a living, but self-education will get you a fortune.

Aristotle went as far as to say that the difference between an educated and uneducated man is the same difference as being alive or being dead.

If you think about it, the solution to just about every challenge you face in your life has already been discovered by someone else, you just have not learned it yet. Being in the information age, we have better information more information Read More...