We are emotional beings that think, we are not logical beings that have emotion. Under every decision we make there is an emotion that is driving that decision and behavior. In this episode I tell a story that shows how our emotions truly dictate our behavior. This will help you realize why you make the decisions you do. 

We have all experienced social anxiety in some way, a free opportunity for all of us to be judged and others to created opinions about us. What if we took a step back and asked ourselves, do we really think that's what's going on? What if we asked the people closest to us a question to help us better understand that people that aren't that close to us...the people who we see in these social settings that may cause us anxiety. The goal of this episode is to help you manage your social anxiety by looking at it in a completely different way using this experiment. 

I picture Hell being a place where every day I am forced to watch what I could have become. I think about this saying a lot as we are in charge of creating the version of ourselves we want to be. If we don't make a conscious effort to create ourselves everything else will consume our time and energy. We will miss the opportunity of being the person we know we are capable of becoming.

We think that speakers, coaches, books and movies can motivate us, but they really don't. The ideas these sources give us make us feel something, almost like a spark that we then put into action. In turn there is only one person who can truly motivate us to take action, change and become something great. In this episode I outline that person.

We talk a lot about gratitude and appreciation, yet do we really understand just how lucky we are? The fact that we have clean water, clothes to wear, phones to communicate with and cars to get us from point A to point B show us just how great we have it. We often focus so much on everything that's going wrong that we forget just how great our lives are. The goal of this episode is to remind you of that and to realize just how lucky we are to be here.

If you do not make yourself uncomfortable the universe will do it for you. I heard this saying from a mentor of mine named Brent Kocal who hosts the Everyday Discipline podcast. Discipline is my ultimate favorite skill; it is the key to getting what you want. In this episode I discuss the importance of staying disciplined with deliberate discomfort in your life in order to experience a more comfortable and rewarding journey.

Social Media is a tool. The way we use this tool determines the effect it has on us. The way we are currently using social media is the problem, not social media itself. In this episode I highlight the positives of social media and why it's great and the negatives of social media and why it's bad. After listening ask yourself how do use social media?

Events happen to us in our life, initially we label these events to give them some kind of meaning. You break your leg, that's bad, you get a raise that's good. Yet what if after breaking your leg your doctor discovers a life-threatening disease? What if that raise required more responsibility and work and you ended up regretting taking it? We don't know what is good or what is bad, all we can do is accept the current reality and try our best to discover what gifts and opportunities lie ahead.

We have all heard of New Year's Resolutions, that one thing you want to bring into your life in the new year. Depending upon when you decide what this new goal is there can be some time to when you actually take action towards that goal. Waiting until a new year to do it is not how high achievers operate. In this episode I debunk New Year's Resolutions and hopefully inspire others to start acting on those goals right now.