What is you purpose?
A good friend of mine recently asked me that a question. He couldn’t have asked me at a better time because, at that junction of my life, I had lost my motivation, lost the “why” behind the things I was doing and lost the direction I was heading.
Can you relate? Do your actions feel empty at times?
Many people think that they know their purpose. Then, in times of hardship when that purpose is challenged, they suddenly realize that that purpose does not motivate them anymore. At that time they feel that they must have lost their purpose.
In college, my first sales job was selling books door to door during the summer. One year, Read More...
If you remember, yesterday I asked the question “What is the purpose of external accountability?” Many of you didn’t have an answer, and if you are like most people you were wondering why I included the word “external” in the question.Well, today the answer shall be revealed. And it will change the way you feel when someone else helps to keep you accountable or when you ask someone to be your accountability partner.
Think about this, why would we ask someone to hold us accountable? It is because when we tell someone else we are going to do something, we will keep ourselves more on track to accomplish that thing, be it a task, assignment, or goal so that we Read More...
Accountability is one of the most powerful tools and motivators that many of us have at our disposal. Most of us have had either an accountability buddy, coach or manager that held us accountable from time to time. But most of us do not realize that there are different types of accountability and that they each have a separate purpose.
We are all familiar with external accountability. That is when someone else holds us accountable. We must understand its purpose before we graduate to the next level of accountability. Without understanding the purpose of external accountability it can sometimes feel as if our accountability buddy or manager is pushing us around, micro managing, or giving us a guilt trip Read More...
Thank you to everyone who entered our contest for the best Memory Training story. If you ever wondered how life changing the Memory Training Workshop can be, be sure to read the submissions we received. And now, the moment you have all been waiting for, the Winners!!
1st Place – David – Winner a Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle and our wildly popular light-up pen.
Being able to Read More...
It has been about a week since the Willowbrook, IL workshop and I hope all of the graduates are using their new skills to build your memory into a giant muscle!
As we discussed, to take any skill to the next level, the unconscious competence level, it will take practice. The good news is you are already equipped with the tools to assist you in turning your memory training into an unconscious habit. I have two pieces of encouragement regarding these tools:
- Doing the 21-Day Follow-Up in your Maximum Performance Memory System workbooks is vital. If you haven’t begun that yet, get going today!! The five to ten minutes a day you spend practicing will pay dividends in the long Read More...
Most readers of our Blog are graduates of our Memory Training Workshop. If you haven’t taken the Memory Training Workshop, it is a phenomenal and life changing experience. You can learn more about it on our website and enroll.
For this month’s contest, I want to hear about your experience USING memory training.
Did you impress a client by remembering all of their Read More...
For those of you who are memorizing a calendar, images for the days of the week are helpful. Here are some suggestions I have. Remember, there are no right or wrong pictures – it just has to work for you. Once you decide on an image, don’t change it.
Memorizing the calendar is a great way to help you stay on schedule. If you want to learn more about improving your memory, check out our Memory Training Workshop.
Days of the Week:
Monday: Moon
Tuesday: Ties
Wednesday: Wedding – or – Camel (for Hump Day)
Thursday: Thor (the day is Read More...
Yesterday, in Part 1, we discussed the importance of positive self talk before you go bed. This time is so powerful for your subconscious because at that moment of drifting to sleep, your alpha waves are most prevalent.
When you wake up is the other time when alpha waves are powerfully flowing. No other time of the day is more influenced by our own actions and thoughts than right now.
Again, we have the great ability to program how we feel. The first 32 seconds after you awake are Read More...
For most Americans, their day begins by being jolted awake by a 500 decibel alarm clock which they precede to pulverize by hitting the snooze button 4 to 5 times to get that so crucial extra 6 minutes of sleep. Then sleepwalk into a boiling hot shower to scald themselves awake, right into a mad dash to get dressed, throw down some chow and chug a pot of maximum strength extra caffeinated coffee before they run out the door to see if today is the day you will finally be able to beat the traffic.
If any of this hits close to home, pay extra attention, because I promise today’s most successful individuals do not start the day like this.
What most people do not realize is when their day Read More...
