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The Rule of 33
You may have heard of the phrase, “You’re the average of the 5 people you hang around with”. Which actually could be how you live your life. You might actually be the average of those 5 people. But I’m posing a different way of looking at it. I was thinking about this the other day
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Expand your knowledge
We all need to expand our knowledge in order to be better. I’m not talking about going to college to get a second degree or a higher degree, unless you want to. But I’m just saying if we stay exactly where we are, and stagnate, we are not living to our fullest ability. To expand
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Value is what you create, Wealth is Value with Time
Our time is all worth something. To a stranger it can be worth more. To a friend, probably less. To find out what your time is intrinsically worth, take your annual income and divide it by 2000. 2000 is roughly the number of working hours in a year or about 50 weeks. So $100,000 divided
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Focus on ONE THING
We are terrible at multitasking. In general, humans are awful at it. Our brains do not do well at trying to focus on two important tasks at a time. Looking for a house to pick up your friend? You turn down the radio. Someone being loud and obnoxious while you are trying to work a
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Build a Framework for your life
Don Miller, of Story Brand and Coach Builder, swears by frameworks. A framework is a tried and true methodology that generates success. That’s a pretty broad definition. Let be delve a bit deeper. A framework is a set of rules, guidelines, or guardrails that are followed to lead to a successful event. An example of
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Life’s tough, Get a helmet
Life gets tough. Sometimes it just plain sucks. Pipe breaks. Car won’t start. Kids are being wild. Sometimes it seems life is coming apart. The sky could be falling on top of you. It’s how you overcome these minor blips that seem like mountains. We play the what-if game all too much an send ourselves
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