Someday, I'm going to go to Africa. Someday, I'm actually going to travel overseas. Someday, I'm going to run a 10K. Someday, I'm going to start my own business and it's going to be millions of dollars coming in. Someday, I'm going to meet the perfect man or woman. Someday, I'm going to take time out of my day and meditate and really center myself. Someday, I'm going to be present. Someday, I'm going to meet the President of the United States.

When is someday? Well, for most people, someday is never day. In this episode, Doug gives a few tips on how we can start making our someday, start today.

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Being in a relationship, whether it is in a romantic partnership, a co-worker, a family member, or a friend, creates a lot of space for conflict and misunderstandings. We can't always control if conflict occurs or how another person interprets the things that we say, but we can control how we choose to handle the situation.

In today's episode, Doug provides us with some helpful tools to create powerful interactions and communication when a conflict arises. A powerful tool that will help you avoid getting into a pit of frustration and anger and allow you to continue operating from a higher and more powerful space.

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In today’s episode we look at who takes the final shots in your life. Who has the final say? When it comes to our five to thrive - mind, body, soul, business, and relationship - who is it that you can turn to to guide you higher and lead you down the best path? What can you do in each area to ensure that you are the one who has the tools to be the MVP of your own life.  When it comes to the game time decisions and actions, are you equipped to take the final shot?    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at: https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/takes-final-shot-life/    

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at actually change. 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. In this episode, Doug gives us the insight to transform the way we see things - transforming our overall days.    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at: https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/changing-way-look-things/    

Have you ever caught yourself looking somewhere external to find the answer to problem or challenge you’re facing? Often times we look outside of ourselves to find solutions when in reality the place we need to be looking is internal. We call this the inner game. So many people, especially business owners look for that one ‘thing’ that will set them up for success. Yet, as Doug talks about in this episode, all of the ‘things’ you are looking for are actually lies within.    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at: https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/business-owner-lost-set-keys/   For more tips and tricks on becoming the Author Of Your Own Story you can visit: www.authorofyourownstory.com   Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/authorofyourownstory/   7 Day Course:  https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/courses/7-days-becoming-author-story/

Do you ever wish you could give advice to your younger self? Have you been through business troubles and wish you could just speak to your younger self and do something different? In this episode, Doug gives advice as if he were giving advice to his younger self in regards to building a business. He answers the question of “what is the one most important thing you learned about business?” Find out the one thing in today’s daily growth hack.    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at:https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/business-advice-younger-self/   For more tips and tricks on becoming the Author Of Your Own Story you can visit: www.authorofyourownstory.com   Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/authorofyourownstory/   7 Day Course:  https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/courses/7-days-becoming-author-story/

Have you ever felt like you have been waiting and waiting for something to happen, and you just don’t know if you can wait any longer? This can apply to waiting for a raise, waiting for a proposal from your partner, waiting for the plumber to show up, or even waiting to get pregnant and have a baby. In this episode, we talk about how to deal with the process of waiting for what we want and exercising patience. Doug talks about the difference between expectations and possibilities and how a switch in your paradigm can change your entire approach.    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at: https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/patience/    

As you are becoming the author of your own story you really need to give yourself permission to fail and permission not to succeed. You need to give yourself permission to fail because if you don’t, you won’t jump. You won’t jump forward. You won’t take that great leap or even that first step that’s necessary to become the author of your own story. In this episode, Doug gives you the insight on how to switch your beliefs around failure and allow yourself to fail and fail often.    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at: https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/permission-to-fail/    

One of the things that commonly happens is you get more and more successful, as you become more and more the author of your own story and are actually out there producing results and people are watching this happen, you're living your life. What happens is people want more of your time. They want more of you.  They want more of what you have. These are the demands upon your time are gonna become greater than ever.    If you're a business owner, this is very, very true, because people not only want your lifestyle they always want to know how to do your business. And so your demands are gonna be great, not only from your staff and your team, but also the people around you. In this episode, Doug gives a few tips on how to deal with the high demand to protect yourself.    ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at:https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/demands-on-your-time/  

Today’s episode is a listener’s Q&A where we answer your questions directly in a daily growth hack. Today’s question is: "I am actually wanting to get my family involved and have them listening to this, but I just can't get them engaged. I recently found that you have these videos on YouTube and they're actually extremely dynamic. I want to get these videos to them, but I don't know how to show them other than getting them all around the computer. Any suggestions?"   ***Subscribe --- Episodes up DAILY***   This is the AYS Daily Growth Hacks where we provide you with growth hacks, insights, and inspiration to bring you closer to becoming the Author Of Your Own Story.   Today's show is also up at:https://www.authorofyourownstory.com/listener-qa/