Preparing for the unexpected emergency seems impossible. The main reason is it’s UNEXPECTED. You don’t know how much to save or what to prepare for because there is no warning for what’s going to happen. All the more reason to prepare. Waiting until the emergency happens is always too late.  66 million Americans do […]
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The heaviest weight we carry is that of emotional and stressful pressures that we have created or that have been established within our own minds. Our mental weight impacts our outlook on life, ultimately influencing the simplest everyday routines. Here are a couple points that we know to be true but are hard to correct:
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A part of the Fantastic Life is meditation (prayer, time out, whatever you want to call it) but damn it is hard to get the habit fully integrated into my life. I read Russell Simmons’s Success through Stillness and send myself the “how to” chapter to read every month. Â I schedule time in my
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We all struggle to achieve our career and personal goals.  Today, I argue that the problem may not be how hard you’re doing something, but what you’re actually striving towards.  Clarity of purpose is Rule #2 of living the Fantastic Life. You have to love what you’re doing, be passionate about it, be willing
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Getting ahead in the game of life takes grit, persistence, goals, hard work, and more, over a long period of time. Want an easy way to get ahead? Dress better. The below article explains why you should dress 25% better than your peers and the normal dress code at the event you are attending.Â
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For most of my career, nobody (nobody!) out worked me. Â But that did not mean I didn’t value time. Living The Fantastic Life requires you to do NOTHING in moderation. Â Clarity of what your priorities are is mandatory. A research project recently conducted at UCLA gives insight on the question of what is more
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Everyone wants success.  But not everyone achieves it. Below is an article on why people don’t succeed. Here are four reminders for all of us this week on how we can sidestep distractions toward success. —Time must consistently be spent on high-quality activities. Don’t major in minor things. —Being successful is balancing the few
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Having energy is important for living The Fantastic Life.  Here are a few tips (and an article) on how to maximize your energy. We know these tips, but we need to remind ourselves to continue to do the right things to keep our energy levels at their peak.          Be aware and consistent with healthy eating,
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There is a good thing about bad emotions– they tell you something is wrong.   And there is a process for harnessing your emotions and creating positive outcomes. When I first started in real estate, it did not take long for me to realize that I wasn’t the most valuable person in the room. I
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Listening is one of the most underrated skills in life, and one I continually find myself working on. I am in sales, and making the pitch is what I do, right? Well not completely. Below, Jeffery Gitomer talks about listening, how to develop your listening ability and what state of mind you should be in to
