Work-Life/Goals

3 Mindset Shifts That Will Help You Reach Your Goals

April 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

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The way you see yourself in the world and the way that you think the world sees you impact your thoughts and actions. The thing is, it’s difficult to figure out our own mindsets because that’s the only way we know how to interact with the world. It often takes input from other people to become aware of how we see things.

You’ve likely heard of the growth mindset vs fixed mindset. But there are plenty of other mindsets that might be holding you back. Here are three common ones and what you can do to work past them.

How To Stay Focused

April 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Staying focused is haaarrrddd. Our modern world is intentionally crafted to be filled with distractions. There are lots of people making lots of money off of you picking up your phone 307 times a day. To stay focused, we have to fight against not only ourselves and our wandering minds, but also thousands of hours of research done for the sole purpose of figuring out how best to make people look away from what they’re doing and at something that someone is trying to sell us. With a little practice, it is possible to stay focused, and I’ve got some tips to help you out.

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20 Signs You Should Quit Your Job

March 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

Where our day jobs are concerned, we’ve all struggled with motivation at some point. We dread the sound of the alarm clock going off, pulling us from the warmth of our beds and dragging us off to something we don’t really care about. It takes until at least 11am – including two train rides, two coffees and a ‘catch up’ meeting – before we have resigned ourselves to our fate for another day.

The Daily Man-Up: Start Small

March 1, 2021 Leave a Comment

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As I talk to more and more people, it’s become clear what the most common sticking point is: getting started. I don’t think I’ve repeated any phrase as often as I’ve said, “Start small.” No matter what it is that you’re doing, whether you think you need to or not, whether you’re changing your life or starting a new project, start small.

Stop trying to overhaul your entire life overnight. I know you want results, and you want them now, but trying to change every habit you have immediately is unsustainable. You didn’t create all of your current habits in one day, so you’re not going to replace them in one day. That’s just not how it works for 99.99999% of people.

The Daily Man-Up: How To Make Sure You Actually Complete The Goals You Start

February 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

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I think we all know “making” a commitment is pretty easy, Anyone can start a business, a new habit, a band, etc. Sticking with it, even when things don’t go as planned, that’s the hard part, and that’s the part that makes hundreds of people quit their dreams and goals every single day. This is why today I want to share with you 6 tips I learned about making these commitments actually work, and even if you may not like hearing this, why in some cases you SHOULD quit.

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December 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

How To Finish What You Start

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Being a productive person comes down to one thing: You finish what you start. Period.

Projects unfinished, goals left behind, jumping for one thing to another, all of that reinforce the identify of being a lazy person.

You’re not a lazy person, simply you don’t finish what you start.

But, before we get into the tips, let’s go quickly over some of the mistakes that prevent us from finishing what we start.

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The Daily Man-Up

December 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

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If your days are just passing by with you doing nothing – then you need to bring some accountability in your life.

When you start a day, do you know exactly what needs to get done? If you don’t, then how could you possibly expect yourself to do what needs to get done?

And it’s not enough to say “I’m going to work on [project]” or “I’m going to make some progress on [task].” Because when it’s time to work, we won’t do any more than we have to. We can be relied upon to do what we must but nothing more. So therefore we need specifics.

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The Daily Man-Up: Write Down Your Goals!

October 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

Goal setting is crucial to long-term achievement but how any of us actually do it? Better yet, how many of us are in the practice of actually writing down goals and bringing them into reality?

According to researchers, on average only three people out of 100 are consistently in the habit of writing down goals.

Interestingly, it has also been indicated that people who write down their goals are 50% more likely to achieve them than those who don’t.

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July 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Don’t tell anyone your goals

I’ve noticed that whenever I talk to someone about my intentions, plans or goals it makes me less likely to follow through with them. This is because talking about positive intentions gives me a small endorphin rush similar to what you would feel if you actually completed the intention.

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The Daily Man-Up

May 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Over the course of the past couple of years in self-development, I’ve come down the these conclusions:

You are an outsider before you are an insider
Everything is hard before it is easy
There is an acclimation time before hard becomes easy
Once hard becomes easy, it will be something you “do”
Something you “do” becomes who you “are” over time.
Who you “are” is changeable moment by moment.

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