Setbacks could be mistakes, failures, injuries, delays - any number of things that can knock you off track from making progress towards your goals. While setbacks are extremely frustrating, if you have a firmly established process for continuous growth and development, and have the discipline to stick to your process, setbacks should be temporary. Not only that, setbacks can contain valuable life lessons that can yield significant dividends in the future.  

However, whether setbacks hold the keys to open new doors of opportunity or not depends on your fundamental outlook - your philosophy on life.   

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Today we are going to cover the third technique to help us identify and eliminate unnecessary complexities in our lives that do not benefit us on our journey towards growth and success. Technique number 3, Simplify Your Mental Landscape, is going to cover a literally mind blowing way we can start to make it easier for us to hone in our mental capacity on the activities in our lives that truly matter - working towards our self development goals for the benefit of ourselves and also just importantly continuing to develop ourselves for those around us.   

As the martial arts icon and philosopher Bruce Lee once said, we must “empty our cup so it can be filled. We must become devoid to gain totality.” And to this end, simplifying our mental landscape is a key step towards preparing ourselves to acquire new knowledge, and to begin integrating this new knowledge in our daily life in the form of useful new skills.  

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee can be found here:  https://www.amazon.com/Be-Water-My-Friend-Teachings-ebook/dp/B082RTHHGM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=like+water+my+friend&qid=1621050614&sr=8-1 

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Welcome to part 2 of our 3-part series where we are focusing on techniques we can use to simplify our lives and the enormous benefits we can gain from leveraging these techniques.  These three techniques that can help us more efficiently and effectively reach our goals along our journey to manifest our greatness are:  

1. Simplifying our daily routines
2. Simplifying our environment
3. Simplifying our mental landscape  

In this installment, we are going to focus on technique number 2 - Simplifying our environment. This technique can be challenging because at first glance, it may seem counter intuitive. This is because society encourages us to enhance our daily lives by acquiring more things. When in actuality, more things typically lead to more distractions. Think about it. The more gadgets you have, the more gadgets you have to maintain. And the more items you surround yourself with the more time you’ll need to spend caring for them. Simplifying our environment allows us to free up both physical space and mental space. And to simplify our environment we need to identify and get rid of the non-essential things. 

Good Bye Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki and Eriko Sugita can be found here:  https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Things... 

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Today we are going to take the first step into a 3-part series that focuses on techniques we can use to simplify our lives and the enormous benefits we can gain from leveraging these techniques.  If we choose to implement these techniques into our daily lives, they can help us more efficiently and effectively reach our goals along our journey to manifest our greatness

These 3 techniques are:  
1. Simplifying our daily routines
2. Simplifying our environment
3. Simplifying our mental landscape  

In this installment, we are going to focus on technique number 1 - Simplifying our daily routines. The first step required to implement this technique is the most crucial and probably the most difficult for many of us. This is because it requires us to pay acute attention to how we currently spend our time during a typical day.

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Everyone’s definition of what success looks like is different. Everyone aspires to be who they were meant to be. But successes of any kind all share one common criteria. And that is that all successes are lifestyles. Which means that however you define success, success is how you aim to be and how you aim to live because success is too big and to all encompassing to be squeezed into any single goal. And today I’m going to lay out 4 keys that are absolutely critical to success.   

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To be successful we need to establish solid routines that help us reach our goals. And then we consistently repeat the process day in and day out. Holding ourselves accountable by following 4 rules - Learn, review, test, & repeat - can significantly help us on our path towards continuous improvement.

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We've all had big decisions to make when suddenly we get stuck in the "to do, or not to do" conundrum - AKA analysis paralysis. How did we get here and what can we do to make a decision with confidence? 

Today I'll cover 5 tips to help identify and overcome analysis paralysis:

A great reference is Michael Masterson's book "Ready, Fire Aim". https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Fire-Aim-Zero-Million/dp/0470182024

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Have you ever been in chill mode and have a small fail suddenly surface that threatened to wreck your whole day? In this episode I share one of those events that I recently experienced, what I learned from it, and how I intend to use it help keep things in better perspective going forward. 

We all have those moments when things suddenly get out of hand and you feel completely incompetent. What's important is that we recognize that everyone gets it wrong sometimes, we are all human, and we are not simply the sum of our results. While it's human nature to look for the negatives, we mustn't let them define us, and we must always remember all the great things that we've accomplished to this day, and keep focused on our intension to do many more great things going forward.

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If we examine our true personal story, we can begin to understand that it’s not really you against the world. It’s you against your perception of the world. If you perceive that the world has no helpful tips, tricks or advice to offer you, then you just won’t notice them.   This also means that what you think you can accomplish is actually not limited to just how hard you are willing to work for something because if you realize that you are surrounded by unnoticed opportunities, you can begin to quiet your mind and to hear all the helpful clues the universe is giving you.

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In today's episode, we reference an excerpt from The Book of Joy, Book by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams. The excerpt deals with the improbable story of Anthony Ray Hinton, a man that was arrested for a murder he did not commit because - according to the officers that arrested him - he was Black. Mr. Hinton spent 30 years on death row in a prison in Alabama until the Supreme Court finally released him. Instead of being angry and resentful of the 30 years of his life that were taken from him unjustly, Mr. Hinton forgave all the people that sent him to jail, and pointed out that "If I'm angry and unforgiving, then they would have taken the rest of my life."

This episode explores how forgiveness - even of terrible transgressions against us in the past - play such a critical role in how choose to fully participate in the present, and how we shape our future.

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