Just yesterday, I was invited to be on a seminar. It was a virtual seminar called The Virtual Summit. I was the expert for marketing, but the conversation took a turn. See, the host asked me a question. They asked me, "Hey, Doug, there's all these people that are trying to run online businesses and grow them exponentially." Which is a big word to use when you talk about business. But they're trying to grow their businesses and while they're doing that, they're worried about social media.

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Now, I'm shooting this Daily Growth Hack for you because I'm getting a lot of questions about this. And the questions aren't about excuses, they're about actually pushing forward and how to do it. And people that have actually gone through and set up their 30 or 90-day plans, but haven't done the work necessary.

And so, what I wanna remind you is a story that you've all heard before, and that's about a Spanish explorer Cortes, and when he landed in Veracruz.

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So, what are categories of improvement? Categories of improvement is just another way of talking about how to categorize your life and look at where you want it to go. So, we're going to break your life down into two main sections.

We're calling them containers here. We have personal and then we have business.

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Now, according to the ancient prophecy, whoever could untie the Gordian Knot was destined to become King of Asia. Now, people failed and tried this over years, and came from all over e world to untie this knot, but nobody could do it. Then, Alexander the Great tried, and he tried many times himself. Finally he decided, "I'll make my own rules." He pulled out his sword and slashed the knot, thus untying it. Now, as fate would have it, he took over all of Asia.

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What do I mean by listening to words? Well, we got a lot of feedback from our Growth Hack about listening to audiobooks at two or three times speed. Got a lot of information and I love hearing from you, so thank you.

One of the questions I got was, "Doug, I don't have the audiobooks. A lot of the books that I enjoy reading either come in hardcover or Kindle versions. What do I do then?"

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This week we get to revisit a daily growth hack favorite! We are always changing, always growing, always evolving. The question is - have you set yourself up to thrive within this change? Are you allowing your beliefs and thought patterns to change or are you resisting and trying to keep your ways the same.

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Earlier today I was actually rolling on the ground with my newborn. He's six months old. As I was actually hanging out with him for a little bit, my phone went off. Normally I have my phone turned off, but I wanted to check the message. As I was checking the message, in that moment, I realized that I wasn't being present, so I just set my phone down. Now, it wasn't more than about 10 seconds that my little boy [Bodie 00:00:38], he actually saw the cell phone on the ground and went for it, and that was the fastest I've ever seen him move.

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What if everybody was watching you? Would you behave differently? Would you act in ways that you felt were more honoring to yourself and to others? 

In this episode, we get to explore how visioning how you would behave if others were watching you can help you identify the gap. 

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We are all apart of many networks, our family network, our friend network, even our LinkedIn network. The question for you to think about today is who are those people in your networks who are contributing to your life, and who are those who aren't. In addition, in these networks, are YOU the person who maybe isn't contributing and how can we look at that and use it as a way to shift.

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What do the billionaire and the beggar have in common? They both have 24 hours in the day. In this episode, we explore the idea that all of have the same time and same power to create what we want. What it comes down to, is what WE CHOOSE to make of it. Learn how you can make a choice to live the way you WANT to live instead of how you feel you have to live.

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