Have you ever felt like you are a completely different person that you were previously? Maybe it’s when you compare yourself to who you were a year ago, or maybe it was when you were in a certain relationship or job. In this episode, we learn how naming that “former self” who we no longer identify with can be a powerful tool when we are in moments of stress or big decisions. This one tool can help fully shift and transform how you show up in the moments that matter the most.

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All of us in life have dogmas, external dogmas or ideologies that are placed upon us, things that we just assume to be true, things that we've always things we should do, right? You've heard that term in these daily growth hacks that you don't want to should all over yourself. We have these shoulds. I should spend more time with my family. I should work more. I should go to the gym. I should get up at 4:00 in the morning. I should stay up 'til 2:00 in the morning working. The shoulds go on and on.

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Happy New Year! The new year's a time of rebirth, a time of cleansing, a time to start over. Yeah, it's an arbitrary day on a calendar, but still, it's a great time to not only reflect on the past but to really be present and move forward into your own future, into your own story. As your story shifts and changes, how do you actually navigate those waters? I'd like to give you a couple resources. We did a seven-day course, Seven Days to Becoming the Author of Your Own Story. It's totally free. There are no catches. There are no gimmicks. This is a course we filmed a little over two years ago, I think, at this point. It's me talking, but also giving exercises.

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Here we are the day before the New Year. This is a time of natural reflection. A time where we can look back, go through our journals, look at old pictures, and see what we've accomplished in 2017. Now, what I want you to do is actually consider the possibility that you've forgotten a lot of the accomplishments that you've achieved. That you've forgotten in your Five to Thrive, all the growth that you've had. And oftentimes what we look at are the things that we did not achieve. We focus on those tasks, those business sales calls that we didn't make, or we weren't able to actually connect with. Those aspects of our lives that we didn't get, rather than focusing on all that we have. The abundance that's actually inside of us, an inside of our lives.

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In a conversation I had with a friend of mine, we were talking about goals and how people actually strive for goals and New Years resolutions. Now often times if you look at the statistics, New Year's resolutions just don't play out. And why is that? It's because a lot of us just settle. We set these goals on an arbitrary timeline and then we just settle for mediocrity right. We settle for what was or the easy path.

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There's an old saying that goes something like this: only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would ever think to look there. Now, I love this saying as I related it to a client of mine. I was talking about his business, but I think about this in all of our five to thrive. How often do we, actually, as people that are alphas ... We're out there just doing more in the world, right? You're listening to a podcast. You're watching me speak. Whatever it is that you're digesting this content, you're choosing to be here now.

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If you're living the AYS life, chances are you have some pretty lofty goals within your five to thrive. Now, when thinking about where you are at with those goals....are you a 10? Are you committed as a 10? Are you playing the game as a 10? If not, why not? In this episode, we talk about how to get you to a 10 and feel on fire about all you're creating in your life. 

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In every course of an action, we're either moving towards something or away from something. And most often this is unconscious. We're either moving away from something that scares us or we're moving away from fear or we're moving away from something that hurts us, and hopefully we're moving toward something that empowers us and makes us better people. Yet this isn’t always the case. In today’s episode we talk about getting clear on what you’re moving towards and from.

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If you are watching, listening, or reading these growth hacks on the regular, then you are someone who is committed to personal growth and consistently changing to a better version of yourself. Yet, sometimes even when we feel and know we have made a change - it takes awhile for those around us to truly accept and believe it. We say we've made a change, we say are done with an old ineffective pattern, but they don't believe it.

In this episode, Doug talks about that process and how to stand in your power and show those around you that you truly have made a transformation.

When you change the way you look at things, the way you look at things actually changes. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, if you're always a grump person, or if you're always assuming things are gonna go bad, you start to notice all the bad things in life. All the bad things are happening in your mind, your body, your soul, your relationships, your business.

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