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Are you a man who longs to live a life of Success and Significance?

This is my original chat with Aaron Walker who is without question a veteran entrepreneur. Starting his first business at 18 and selling to a Fortune 500 company nine short years later demonstrates Aaron’s passion for succeeding. Unwilling to rest on past success, Aaron started, bought and sold twelve successful companies over the past 38 years.

Today Aaron spends the majority of his time HELPING MEN GROW IN SUCCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE as President and Founder of VIEW FROM THE TOP, a premier life and business coaching resource. (more…)

Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast with John Lee Dumas (JLD)

If you are a podcaster, entrepreneur, business owner or just like to hear about others success with the desire to inspire your own, you’ll get some value from the “value bombs” JLD is dropping in his podcast, EOFire.

What attracted me to this podcast was John’s passion and story. Head over to his website to get his take – Entrepreneurs on Fire, however, for what it’s worth, here’s mine.

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Not Sure of Your Life’s Purpose? Don’t worry – No One Is! We Create it.

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Do you find yourself stagnant in life? Wondering what it is that you are supposed to be doing with your life?

As we look around us we see all these people doing and achieving great things and as we reflect on our own lives not sure of our purpose. Sound familiar?

I this short 3 minutes thought I explore this feeling and as I have discovered non-of us are born with purpose we create it. Everything in our life is a creation of the mind. If you want more purpose in life, expose yourself to more experiences. (more…)

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“A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.” John Foster Dulles

The cumulative effect. Accumulation derives from the Latin work “pile up.” The cumulative effect is essentially that, the accumulation of an effect caused by repeated action, behaviors, or thoughts that become more pronounced as time progresses.

Think of it as the snowball effect. As the small ball begins to roll down the hill it expands in size at an ever increasing rate until it becomes a large mass of accumulated snow. Everything in life that we repeatedly do can have this effect with results both favorable in unfavorable outcomes.  (more…)

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“Find your way out. Go home and master Death by becoming alive.” Don Miguel Ruiz

At the age of 14, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. apprenticed to his father don Miguel Sr. and his grandmother, Madre Sarita. From that early age, he was called upon to translate Madre Sarita’s prayers, lectures, and workshops from Spanish into English. Through interpreting for Madre Sarita, don Miguel Jr. came to understand the power of faith.

For the past eight years, don Miguel Jr. has applied the lessons learned from his father and grandmother to define and enjoy his own personal freedom while achieving peace. (more…)

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Uncertainty means that things can be other than they appear. This realization brings hope in difficult times and can prompt gratitude in good times.”

This is an amazing book to read. It was quite over my head at points but Lisa has done a fantastic job and explaining the theories as to how emotions are made. The main elements of this book which I think is absolutely amazing to ponder is that number one – the brain is constantly predicting our future, and number two – we are the agents of the reality we live and the destiny we create. (more…)

Drop Your Schedules That Brings You Dissatisfaction

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu

Healthy pressure is good in life. Having discipline and routine raises our levels of effectiveness. The benefits are that we are better able to pursue our aspirations and dreams. However, if the plans that we create cause us unnecessary displeasure or dissatisfaction in the process is it really worth it?

What if instead of being consumed by our schedules, thinking that they are our only options we take control back. Just as we own our plans and those things we wish to accomplish, let’s also control the journey. (more…)

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Why Numbing Emotions Isn’t Ideal for Progress

“We numb vulnerability. We are the most in debt, obese, addicted and over medicated adult cohort in US history. The problem is that we cannot selectively numb emotion.” Brene Brown

 In this episode, I share my thoughts on why numbing emotions isn’t ideal. It has been inspired by a TED Talk I heard recently by Brene Brown. I wrote a short article about it here.

The thought is that by numbing our emotions we numb all emotions even the good ones like happiness. This can place us in a vicious cycle that is certainly no benefit for living this experience as fully as possible.

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