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Have you ever kept around a bad habit for way too long? Have you ever stayed in a bad relationship for way too long? Have you ever knew that you wanted your life to be one way but you kept acting in a very different way?

What the hell is going on here? The reason that we very often will...

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There is perhaps no greater gift that we all are given at the time of our birth than our innate curiosity and sense of exploration for the world. As children we look at everything with novel eyes, even those stimuli that we have already seen!

But somewhere down the line, our...

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“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” – Hunter S Thompson

Did you know that only one out of every three Americans say that they are "very happy" with their lives? A huge part of why this is the case and...

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The quality of your life and leadership is in direct proportion to the value and scope of the questions that you ask. If you are constantly asking the same, lousy questions about your life experience you will only continue to give yourself more lousy answers.

When your boss...

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What makes people successful? There are a lot of answers to that question, and it is easy to get caught up in the noise of personal development "hacks" and strategies that are really quick fixes for a deeper challenge.

The problem begins with a lack of clarity on what you really want....

When I was 13 years old, I had a plan to kill myself. While this was perhaps the most painful period of my entire life, so much so that I avoided speaking of it for ten years, it turned out to be the greatest gift I could have ever received. I hope that the lessons I learned from this time...

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Ever felt "stuck?"

Not sure why a part of you wants your life to be one way, but you keep seeming to sabotage yourself?

Or maybe you feel unclear about what you really want – you thought that you wanted one path in life, but once you got there, you started to feel dissatisfied, and...

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Human beings' biggest addiction is not to drugs or alcohol but to problems. As people navigate through their life, there is a predisposition to look at anything that presents a challenge as an obstacle – something to be frustrated with and become anxious about.

Only one in...

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Ever had difficulty convincing someone of something you knew was correct? We all have. Most influencers are making a HUGE mistake when they engage in conversation, and they don't even realize it.

The problem is that most influencers start a conversation with their mind already made up,...

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No matter who you are or where you are in your life, you are a leader of some sort – there's no doubt about it. And if you are going to lead anyone towards a particular outcome, you have to have skills of effective influence. No set of skills is more critical to getting what you...

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You cannot give somebody something that you don't already have. Yet this is one of the biggest mistakes that novice influencers make. They try to convince someone that they should join an organization or buy a product without having real emotional conviction behind their offer. Or...

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Fear is one of the most universally human emotions, and it is likely the most unresourceful emotional state that anyone can experience. When we are fearful, we show up differently. We don't act like ourselves. We are bitter, cold, angry, and unmotivated. Perhaps worst of all, when we are...