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2 Ways to Evaluate Your Relationships

It’s hard to deal with people who waste time. It’s hard to deal with people who take forever to get started. And I can’t stand it when I have to depend on them. We all know someone who’s just not that excited to start the day. They wake up late, spend another 20 minutes lying in bed, check their email, prepare their breakfast, eat their breakfast, get dressed… and three hours have already gone by before they’re out of the door. Such people start their day at noon or 1:00 p.m. What a waste of a day. It’s even worse…

90 Day Challenge, Money

5 Tips to Negotiate Your Salary and Get Promoted

We all would benefit from making more money. And in many cases, a lot of us deserve to be paid a little more than we do for the hard work we put into our job. We want to be compensated for the value we provide instead of the hours we work, but in the corporate world that’s rarely ever the case…unless you’re in top management. Some people try to make more money by working a second job. But not everyone has that option. Some may have to care for a sick parent or fight an illness and they honestly can’t…

90 Day Challenge, Speaking in Public

How to Give a Speech to a Tough Crowd

I recently had to give a speech to a tough crowd. I had already known that they were a tough group to deal with. But I wasn’t aware that my speech would be last. In fact, my speech was the last in a series of speeches that were delivered at the audience and not to them. People had already begun to leave. They were tired, hungry, anxious and really bored. And the speech I prepared was information packed. It had to be… for the purpose of the subject I was invited to speak about. But the audience had had enough.…

90 Day Challenge, Goals

Enjoy These 4 Benefits When You Give Up Your Car

Most people hate public transportation. Yes. They hate it. Taking public transportation usually means waiting for the bus at the bus station, then waiting to get in the bus and then hopefully finding a good seat. And after all of that one still has to deal with the annoyance of stopping every 5 to 10 minutes to let people off and let more people on. It can also take twice as long to get to your destination than if you had your own car. So there’s already a lot of annoyance when it comes to taking public transportation. But despite…

90 Day Challenge, Goals

How to Build Hard Muscles After Losing Fat

Losing fat is a long journey. It’s journey where you’re in a calorie deficit and you’re more often than not low in energy. This can cause you to lose concentration at work, feel drowsy and lethargic, attend less social events and prefer staying home, and feel generally more tired than usual throughout the day. People experience those things to varying degrees. Some people lose fat slowly in order to counteract feeling low in energy. But it can take them a long time to lose 10 pounds. Some people spend something like 4-5 months in order to get the excess weight…

90 Day Challenge, Speaking in Public

Speaking Exercises – How to Use the Speaking Voice

Everyone is more or less a decent communicator. We all can get our message across both in writing and in speaking and the majority of people will understand what we’re trying to say. That’s all fine. But very few people can move others to take action. Very few people know how to influence others and get more friends. And most people think one is born a good communicator or a bad one. They believe it’s built-in…they believe it’s hardwired and you’re either good or bad. And that’s why they won’t do much to improve this area of their lives. They…

90 Day Challenge, Self-Empowerment

Gratitude: Don’t Just Take, Here’s Why

People always want more from their lives. And they should rightly strive after their goals and dreams. It’s the human need to excel. But they’re always trying to take something. They want success, fame, money, friends, love… and they want to keep taking more and more out of life. But you won’t be truly happy if you only take things. You have to give things. To make a point about this in my personal life, I’ve decided to give, on my birthday, a gift to someone instead of receiving or expecting a gift. I want to give it to a…

90 Day Challenge, Purpose

Pursuing Your Passion is No Guarantee To Success

I write a lot about passion. I’ve said many times that people should pursue what they’re passionate about because that’s where they will ultimately find happiness and fulfillment. A lot of people also think about what they’re most passionate about when they consider changing careers. In fact, many people quit their jobs because they want to do something they’re more passionate about. They’re sick of doing the same old thing every month for a salary that doesn’t complement the value they provide. And they’re ready to move on. So passion seems the way out of boredom and repetition and also…

90 Day Challenge, Goals

What Separates Superstars from Stars

A lot of the articles on goal setting are more or less some variant of the S.M.A.R.T model. They say something along the lines of setting up specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals, or S.M.A.R.T goals. And they give a discussion of how approaching your goals in this manner makes it more likely for you to achieve them. There is certainly a lot to be learned from this process and you should use it if you haven’t already. However, what I want to discuss in this post is the question of what separates above-average people from average people in…

90 Day Challenge, Habits

Meditating in Everyday Activities

Take a deep breath. Most people rush themselves into doing a lot of things. They are in a rush to eat and to finish eating, to work and to finish working, to work out and to finish working out and even to walk and just get to places. They don’t savor the moment. Rushing in your everyday life and wanting to just “get it over with” takes the life out of your activities. It takes wakefulness and intentionality out of it and in doing so you grow into becoming less and less in touch with your authentic self. 1. Mindfulness…