The Fantastic Life

Over my lifetime I have become an avid reader of all things personal and professional growth. I’ve also come to learn that many people don’t have time to read, don’t like to read or don’t know what to read to help them live a Fantastic Life. This blog is a shortcut to articles and stories that I’ve found helpful. There are thousands in this library, organized by topic and by Fantastic Life rule.  Even better, I’ve summarized each entry and highlighted what’s most important. So you don’t have to.

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Life Lessons

Evaluating Character

Today, I am sending a blog on character by Ted Gioia.  In his post, he gives 8 techniques for evaluating character.  If you are going

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Life Lessons

Change Your Mindset

When I first read the below article, I found myself smiling quite a bit.  Why?  Because it felt like reading my books, The Fantastic Life

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Life Lessons

Not Feeling It Today

Not feeling it today?  I’ve been there. You and I both know we will not be operating at 100% all the time.  We KNOW this. 

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Exercise Snacks

I LOVED the idea presented in the article below — an exercise snack. What is it? 1 minute of intense exercise. Why do it? Turns out, it

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Life Lessons

Inspiration is Powerful

This is a first for LIFEies – my only comments in this blog are quotes from a Richard Hamming speech, the full text of which is

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Dunning- Kruger Effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a human condition where the least competent people in an area overestimate their skills the most AND the most competent think

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Meditation

Mindfulness for Anxiety

Mindfulness is a fairly common theme of your Fantastic Life.  I constantly want to gently remind myself and our LIFEies community to get more present in our

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Education

Procrastination

Today, we’re talking about the dreaded P-word —procrastination. Below is a great article with lots of ideas on how to procrastinate less. It’s worth the

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Goals

Suffering Pleasurably

I love writing about Type 2 Fun – the type of fun that is challenging in the moment but rewarding in retrospect. I normalized this type of

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Goals

Confident Humility

Since I started writing LIFEies, I now get inspiration for life lessons everywhere. Today, the lesson comes from a blog from the company that is

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Life Lessons

Optimism vs. Pessimism

I am an optimist.  A pragmatic optimist.  I have had to be because since 1983, I have been a 100 percent commission salesman.  You cannot

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Life Lessons

Time Across Our Lives

Below is a fascinating article about how we spend our time throughout our lives. Now that I am 60+ years old, I have experienced quite

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Life Lessons

Want Less

When I read the article after my comments, this formula stuck out: Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want The absolute key to

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Rest

You might think you know what rest is, but there are a few things your definition may be lacking. Read the full article below to

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Do the Work

Recently, I have found myself checking my phone for emails, then sliding into Instagram. Full disclosure, we now have three grandbabies and they are addicting to

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Goals

Turning Around a Moonshot

Greg Robinson is the NASA engineer who got the Webb Space Telescope launched (a huge moonshot).  This was after the entire project was a complete disaster. 

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Life Lessons

Your Gut Health

Gut health is becoming even more important as we begin to understand it better. Every week I see new and potentially life-changing information come out about the

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