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Joyful No Matter What

01.28.2022

I speak about being joyful often and get lots of questions about making it happen. First, there is no magic to being joyful, and rose-colored glasses are not required. In fact, the more precise you see the world, the more ...

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01.28.2022 Joyful No Matter What I speak about being joyful often and get lots of questions about making it happen. First, there is no magic to being joyful, and rose-colored glasses are not required. In fact, the more precise you see the world, the more ...
01.27.2022 Where You Should Put Your Focus A client asked me, "What do you pay attention to most of the day to keep yourself on track?" I said, "I pay attention to MY agenda first. When I cross paths with the agendas of others, it doesn't have ...
01.26.2022 Why a Boring Life is a Boss Life I live by a mantra that says - “Almost everything in my day-to-day life should be routine. Consistent. Predictable. Between the lines. Boring. But, occasionally, it’s good to get out of the box, a little on edge, a bit scared, ...
01.25.2022 Say "Yes" To Yourself Do you ever wish you had a less complicated life? Even if your job and life are overcomplicated out of necessity, like launching a rocket or performing brain surgery, you can still simplify everything. How do you do it? The ...
01.24.2022 4 Steps to Change Anything Creating a difference in your life is a non-stop process that requires simple actions to help you get what you want. And it is, after all, about getting what you want and keeping what you love. You’ll always go through ...
01.21.2022 Mindfulness Starter Thoughts Everything you do is guided by what you think is logical in your mind. Just like everything I do is directed by my Scott LOGIC. Is it common sense? Is it experience-based? Is it how you choose to live? Yes. ...
01.20.2022 4 Questions Before You Begin Everybody has dreams. Daydreams, dreams while you sleep, and dreams of what you wish for the future. I’ve always believed that dreams are goals you have nurtured to become real in your life. But how do you know if the ...
01.19.2022 Today is Another Chance to Succeed Is it me, or does living life these days make you feel like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day? When it comes to working toward goals, that can be a tremendous asset. It's also something that will break you ...
01.18.2022 How To Break Bad Habits How To Break Bad Habits Have you struggled to break a habit? Bad habits are not good. They will mess up your day. They are also not permanent. You weren’t born with bad habits, and you are not required under ...
01.17.2022 The Path All Relationships Follow When I first met my wife, Joi, I knew we would be married and live happily ever after. But there was a problem. Joi didn’t see it that way - at least not right away. If life has taught me ...
01.14.2022 Real Purpose is Waiting For You There's an idea floating within your mind. Soon it will demand your attention. Is this all there is? Am I destined for something bigger? Your real purpose will arrive in your life when you: 1) Accept WHO you are and ...
01.13.2022 Get What You Want By Doing Nothing Before I begin, I want to define what I mean by doing nothing. I don’t see doing ‘nothing’ as something unproductive. Instead, I see ‘nothing’ as a protected personal space that lies between your thoughts and your actions. It is ...
01.12.2022 3 Steps Required to Change Anything Is a title like "Three Steps Required to Change Anything" an oversimplification of what it takes to get what you want? Or… is it the acceptance that everything is simple - until we complicate it. If you guess the second, ...
01.11.2022 Morning Routines That Work For You You hear a lot about using morning rituals to get more done. But what if you could use your mornings to get more done for YOU? In the fast-face world, we live in today; there seem to be two groups ...
01.10.2022 How Not To Put Your Foot in Your Mouth Have you ever caught yourself doing or saying something you swore you would never do? You have been TRIGGERED! It can be frustrating when you set the rules and don't follow them. Sometimes you put your foot in your mouth. ...
01.07.2022 Rules of Success If you study people who have had success in any area of their life, you will find they have much in common. Not only do they follow a set of rules, they follow those rules no matter how much life ...
01.06.2022 Are You The Monkey in The Middle? Have you ever found yourself stuck in the middle? I spoke with a client trying to be everything to everybody. His business was not growing. His life was not happy. He couldn’t seem to find a way to make progress. ...
01.05.2022 Believing in The Person You Will Become I’ll never forget the day a mentor of mine said to me — “You have to become the person you want to be before becoming the person you want to be.” What? So I have to fake it until I ...
01.04.2022 Why Reaching a New Goal is Difficult It's the time of the year when it seems almost everybody is setting new goals. It's also the time of year most folks will quickly give up on those goals. There has been a lot of research about how long ...
01.03.2022 Build Your Chain of Success I’ll never forget the day a friend called and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse - and I didn’t. Rob was an event promotor who had snagged the chance to book an up-and-coming comedian named Jerry Seinfeld into a ...
12.31.2021 Toss Your To-Do List Toss Your To-Do List This is the time of year when people start thinking about getting more productive in their life. Over time, I've learned there is a significant benefit of growing older and wiser, figuring out what works in ...
12.30.2021 You Have Arrived. Now What? I can't tell you how many times I've heard somebody say— "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself and saved more money." True or true? Modern times are interesting ...
12.29.2021 Passion Gets in The Way of Money My friend sent a note on a subject that profoundly resonates with me. He asked me, "What's more important, passion or money?" Ask any person who knows me, and they will tell you that I am all about doing what ...
12.28.2021 One Goal is All it Takes Let me start by saying that goal setting is powerful, and you should be doing it - but there is a good chance that you are overdoing it. It's human nature to set goals, and you do it every day ...
12.27.2021 The Anti-Routine Morning When my wife and I were first married, it wasn’t long before I learned that waking up at 5:45 AM, and every step after that, seemed to be programmed into her DNA - and I was not too fond of ...
12.24.2021 Traditions Are The Way to Happiness Are you a person who always does things the same way or prefers to change things up at every chance? If you’re lucky, you are both. Traditions are the secret sauce behind the emotional connection we feel at this time ...
12.23.2021 Escape Your Past, Accelerate Your Future My mind is constantly searching for a simple, three-step process for anything that will help me get what I want, and that usually comes down to something I talk about a lot; making a decision. I speak about decision-making much ...
12.22.2021 The Gift of Making a Decision As we approach the most spiritual time of year, I find more and more of my thoughts are focused on what my future will bring. But instead of drafting a list of goals, my mind seems to settle into a ...
12.21.2021 Are You Happy And You Don’t Know It? I can’t remember her name, but I can tell you she was not a happy person. It was a hot, hazy, and humid Virginia day when I arrived for a class reunion. As I stepped toward the check-in table, a ...
12.20.2021 All I Want For Christmas is a New Tooth Sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving, I found myself finishing leftover candy and bit into a Jolly Rancher - a recipe for disaster for anybody with a mouth full of dental work. As you might have predicted, it wasn't long before ...
12.17.2021 Are You The Leader or a Tribe Member? Over the past few years, there has been a trend in business toward an open, communicative, friendly, and supportive environment. While I believe that’s the way it should be, there has also been confusion amongst everybody in the company and ...
12.16.2021 The 180 Degree Rule Is the Universe whispering to you and nudging you to move in a specific direction? Before I go on, I need to admit that I am certainly not an expert in the Universe or it works in our life. The ...
12.15.2021 Do Leftovers Make Happiness? When I began training and competing with my dog in agility, I made a rookie dog trainer mistake. I wasn't consistent, and my dog was getting confused. One day, my trainer said, "For a dog, one time means all the ...
12.14.2021 How To Get Something Going On in Your Life I was on the phone with a client that was in a bit of a rut with her Real Estate business. It had been a good year, yet she found herself coasting and feeling like nobody wanted anything to do ...
12.13.2021 Why Does Life Get in The Way? If you knew me as a child, one thing would be true; that I was 100% a non-adult and would maximize my time getting away with being cute and funny. That’s what kids do - and I love it. Children ...
12.10.2021 Limited Choice is Good My wife and I were looking for something on Netflix and found ourselves repeating the scroll a couple of times. Finally, the screen changed, and the graphic offered us a choice. It said, "just play something?" Yes, please. Just play ...
12.09.2021 If You Stay You Can’t Go I’ve noticed in my life that humans are hoarders when it comes to keeping stuff in their life that works and doesn’t work. They keep hanging life their life depends on it. Now, before I go on, I think there ...
12.08.2021 Yin and Yang of Fast and Slow I was riding my Harley-Davidson Road King a few days ago when my mind suddenly thought - “The Chinese Philosophical concept of Yin and yang describes how opposite or contrary forces may be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural ...
12.07.2021 Success Comes in Your Native Habitat "You need to get out of your comfort zone if you want to succeed!" I can't tell you how many times I've heard that. Thankfully, that silly advice is something I've only accepted a couple of times. I hated every ...
12.06.2021 How High is Your Ceiling Sometimes, I scratch my head when people say something that I can’t believe is true. That has happened over the years when my wife, Joi says silly things like - “I like to paint. It’s fun. I don’t like to ...
12.03.2021 Do You Know Who You Are? There’s a lot of talk about “ideology” these days, and it’s usually not in a good way. But what about YOUR ideology? Do you know who you are? Before I go on, ideology is simply a creed, culture, dogma, outlook, ...
12.02.2021 Do You Think Like a Happy Person? If you were to ask my wife if I was always a happy and positive person, she would likely say, "Hmm… it's complicated… but yes." As a proud high-maintenance man who has never met a conversation I didn't want to ...
12.01.2021 Positive, Practical, and Peaceful I have to admit that I get in trouble because some of the Scott logic that comes out of my mouth doesn’t sit well with lots of folks these days - and they let me know. One of the biggest ...
11.30.2021 Daring To Face Your Dreams “Please! Can somebody stop the world? I want to get off!” Okay. Just for you, I pressed the magic button, and the world stopped. Whatcha gonna do now? If you don’t have an answer, there’s no need to freak out. ...
11.29.2021 Success With No Will Power Required When will you get yourself to do what you say you want to do? More people than you know lose sleep over that question. If that sounds like something you have experienced, you’re not alone. Almost everybody begins their journey ...
11.26.2021 Somebody Need You Right Now When I was a teenager, I was a weekend moviegoer, and it was the age of Rocky, Star Wars, and Jaws. Besides, with only three channels on television, getting out of the house was the top item on my to-do ...
11.25.2021 Wisdom of Gratitude I woke up this morning with an incredible zest to expand my feeling of gratefulness. Well, there is not so much to expand as to recognize all the things that I am grateful for but haven’t thought about lately. That’s ...
11.24.2021 Yes, Your Life is Repeating Itself My friend Louis Gates introduced me to his 9-Year Life Cycle to understand how we progress through life. Cycles begin at birth and advance every 9 years and go like this: Year 1: You decide what you want and start ...
11.23.2021 Long Game of Success Many years ago, a friend passed along a pearl of wisdom that has served me well. Larry was a mentor. I was an eager young man who wanted everything now. I'll never forget sitting in the chair in front of ...
11.22.2021 One Question Makes Goal Setting Easy As we enter the holiday season, have you taken a few minutes to consider what you would like to do in 2022? Getting started now will allow you to relax and enjoy the next few months. It begins by asking ...

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