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Why You MUST Quit Sometimes

El Capitan is 3,000-foot vertical rock wall in Yosemite National Park that thousands climbers from all around the world go to challenge every year.

If you decide to challenge this big wall you had better come prepared. El Capitan takes on average 4-6 days for the average climbing party to make it to the top all while hauling 100lbs of gear, food and water for each member.

To get up the sheer massive wall of El Capitan you have over 70 established routes to choose from all with varying levels of difficultly. With most greater than a 5-9 / 5-10. (Basically means expreinced climbers only.)

But you will encounter many challenges along the way. It’s very easy to get off route or be under prepared or for a storm to approach and ruin your ascent.

In life we need to always be aware of where we are on the path we’re heading. It’s like a route up a mountain. If we get off course, we need to be willing to stop and reevaluate. And sometimes we need to be willing to quit and go back down to try again another day. Continue Reading…

link Posted: May 25, 2011 in: Self Development

Power Up

20 Actions you can take now to boost your energy

Recently, just for the fun of it, I started making a list of all the things that energize me.

These are in no particular order:

  1. Get 8–9 hours of sleep a night.
  2. Lose weight.
  3. Get outside.
  4. Eat lean.
  5. Walk faster.
  6. Go to bed and get up at the same time every day.
  7. Take naps.
  8. Drink 8 glasses of water a day.
  9. Exercise regularly.
  10. Stop watching or reading the news.
  11. Avoid negative people.
  12. Surround yourself with high-energy people.
  13. Avoid sugar and white carbs (potatoes, bread, etc.)
  14. Say positive things
  15. Breathe more deeply.
  16. Stop complaining.
  17. Clean/Organize your house (dunno about you, but once I get going, I’m motivated)
  18. Organize your desk.
  19. Write out your goals with actions steps
  20. Do 25 jumping jacks.

When you’re feeling slow or in a rut, what do you do to boost your energy level?

link Posted: February 1, 2011 in: Self Development

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Feeling Lost in my own skin

If you’ve noticed the Popular Posts to the right of this blog you’ll see a post entitled “Multi-Level Marketing Will Leave You Broke“. So it shouldn’t be any surprise to you to learn that I was once heavily involved in multi-level money wasting. It was about 4 years when I finally quit that business. And while the business plan wasn’t the best, there are things I miss about it. I miss the atmosphere of confidence. Attending those weekly meetings really opened up some doors for me in networking and communicating with people and being less of an introvert.

Over the last year since getting married and starting my new business my social circles have changed a number of times. Being in business for yourself means networking. Especially if you want to grow said business. It also means shaking hands, meeting with clients, making proposals and selling people on your services.

For a time I could boldly and confidently communicate with clients and with people Continue Reading…

link Posted: November 3, 2010 in: Self Development, Thoughts On

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Dream Big, Act Big

Today’s post comes from a guest Maren Kate  an entrepreneur who blogs about her escapades at Escapingthe9to5.com where she chides people to dream big, act bigger and run screaming from the status quo. My kind of thinker. Enjoy.

It is a wonderful thing to dream, but it’s an even better thing to act upon those dreams. Throughout my life I’ve dreamed of a certain lifestyle, certain freedoms and the chance to do the extraordinary, but it wasn’t until after college that I realized dreams were just realities waited to be acted upon. This realization changed my life, up until about 21 I’d always assumed that you could dream but life happened to you regardless. This couldn’t be further from the truth and as I ‘wake up’ more and more from the fog of ‘the real world’ I see that your life can be as big as you dream it but your dreams can only be as big as you are willing to act upon.

This is actually reason for celebration, it means you don’t have to wake up everyday and think ‘what will life hand me today’ instead you can literally happen to life, all it takes are baby steps. The way I act upon my dreams is three fold, I’ll explain my ‘action plan’ below: Continue Reading…

link Posted: March 30, 2010 in: Self Development

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TRY > FAIL > ADJUST

I’m pretty sure I learned this little tidbit when I was invovled with Quixtar, but it’s a pretty simple princple.

Most people who try something and then experince failure just give up and quit. That’s the wrong approach. After you experince a failure you need to simply readjust what you are doing and try it again. If you fail again, ADJUST WHAT YOU ARE DOING AGAIN. Keep doing this until you succeed.

I’ve failed in business a couple of times. Most recently I tried to start an IT company with a friend. I very quickly learned that two heads is a monster, especially when you both have different ideas about the direction the company should go. The whole thing turned out to be a big waste of nearly 3 months. Complete failure.

Did I give up and go looking for a job? NO! I adjusted my plan for business, this time, minus the business partner. New name, new plan, new strategy, and now I’m 3 months into a successful web development company.

The simple point here is if you fail, get up and brush the dust off your feet. Take a look at what you did wrong, learn from it. Adjust your plan and try again. If you fail, adjust and try again until you end up with this formula Try = Success!

link Posted: March 21, 2010 in: Self Development

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