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You have stumbled onto another episode of Get Your FILL, the podcast where we explore the path to financial independence and long life. Listen to the intro episode for a full explanation of the format & the backstory but basically we’re working our way throughout a week of content with a theme for each day.

MIM: Okay, let’s move it – right now, stand up, put your arms by your side and shrug your shoulders – like you’re saying ‘I don’t know’. Do that a couple of times. Now bring your shoulders toward each other in the front and let your hands move toward each other, then circle them back up, then to the back and try to touch your shoulder blades together, then down and make that down an active pushing down of your shoulders toward the floor and feel that nice release of tension. Then reverse it, start pushing down to back with your shoulder blades together and up shoulders toward your ears to the front. Doesn’t that feel great? The whole time that you’re doing this, try to look straight ahead. I notice when I do this that my head wants to go back. I don’t think that’s ideal. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, check out the video. There’s a link on the website, GetYourFILLpodcast.com then you can see it graphically and you don’t have to use your imagination.

TAGRT: In the intro to Napoleon Hill’s book, Think & Grow Rich, he talks about Edwin C Barnes who thought his way into a partnership with Thomas Edison. Picture this young guy who’s been hearing about Thomas Edison and reading about him and who has created in his mind a burning desire to work with this man and be his business partner. It would be like if I decided that I wanted to learn investing from Warren Buffet. He didn’t know Edison and couldn’t afford to buy the train ticket to see him. Did that stop him? No way. He traveled by blind baggage. I don’t think that’s a thing anymore but basically he took a freight train and traveled in a boxcar like you see in the movies. Napoleon Hill tells this story because Edwin Barnes used the 13 steps to riches to achieve his goal of becoming a business partner of Thomas Edison. He had a burning desire, he was persistent, he saw none of the obstacles that you or I may have seen. He just pointed himself toward his goal and kept going until he achieved it.

WAIW: Where are you today? How are you tracking to your goals? Have you set goals? If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. If you can’t figure out what you want, at least figure out what you don’t want and work backward. I know that I don’t want to be a penniless, homeless beggar living on the streets so I can set a goal to be able to afford a comfortable place to live and enough to eat and go from there. You want to set goals for your health, your relationships, etc.

I’m doing okay. After this, I have to finish one more podcast episode before I can get them over to iTunes to launch. I’ve got my great astrologer friend, Sandra Knight, working on the most auspicious day for the launch so that’s all very exciting. I’m in Denver writing this to attend the National Speakers Association Influence convention. It starts tonight so I’m looking forward to connecting with friends old and new, to seeing my mastermind group in person, to learning more about how to become an effective speaker, which is my goal for 2020. All good stuff happening.

TYT: Who or what has had a positive impact on you this week? Let’s take a minute to send a gratitude-thought-wave message. Keep it going until you feel your heart swell w