Like all bad habits, excuses are easy. They allow you to box yourself into your comfort zone and be “okay” with your life. After a while, you’ll find this way of living isn’t enough for you. You can either accept where your life is ( “give up”), or you can eliminate your excuses by taking responsibility for where you are now and more importantly, why you created the excuses in the first place. 

To help you get started, this episode will lay out 7 ways to eliminate your excuses.

 

Like all bad habits, excuses are easy. They allow you to box yourself into your comfort zone and be “okay” with your life. After a while, you’ll find this way of living isn’t enough for you. You can either accept where your life is (which is the excuse-coated version of “give up”), or you can eliminate your excuses by taking responsibility for where you are now and more importantly, why you created the excuses in the first place. 

To help you get started, this episode will lay out 7 ways to eliminate your excuses.

 

This is one of the harshest facts I have encountered, but it is unquestionably accurate. At first it seemed impossible to agree with, but the more I see society’s entitlement mentality, the more this fact becomes true. The reason this fact is true is even more shocking. 

 

Let’s get something straight; I was a member of the 98% club until April 1999 when I decided to take charge of my life, become my own boss and take responsibility for what was going to happen to me.  I was no longer going to be making someone else’s dreams come true.  That day was the starting point of my personal road to wealth and achievements. There is nothing great about being members of the 98% club.   

 

So, are you a member of the 98% or 2% club?  Be honest with yourself and where you stand today.  Remember life is no dress rehearsal.   

Running your own company is immensely gratifying but also terrifying. There is no better feeling than watching your vision take off and become a living, breathing entity that changes your life and those around you. I believe running your own company is like being a professional athlete.

Many of us look up to professional athletes, fantasizing about being in their shoes, in all their moments of glory. However, many don’t often think about is the enormous amount of dedication, willpower and the failures that they had to overcome to achieve success.  Strangely enough, this same phenomenon occurs when people look up to entrepreneurs. 

  Remember Every Struggle is a reminder of the question…How Bad Do You Want it? 

If I asked you right now to rate how bad do you really want to change your life on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being a maybe and 5 being all in.  Where are you at; be honest with yourself because most people go through their lives as 1 or 2. 

How do you get to success? You want it more than breathing.

Review your list of excuses, and make a decision to stop sabotaging yourself with this week's episode.

     

Have you ever had a slip of the tongue?  Put your foot in your mouth?  Or had that moment when we wish we could take back something we’ve said? 

Communication experts agree that our vocabulary contains many word traps that can impact how we are perceived by others and destroy our credibility. 

What is interesting is these words are so commonplace, you may not notice it but it can instantly trigger negative reactions from your listeners. This is especially true in high-stress situations or where there’s a lack of trust, causing sensitivity to these word traps to be heightened. 

Find out how the words we use impact us in all areas of our lives and how words can hurt you. In this episode.

The most in-demand skills that employers crave are the elusive "soft skills"--the intangible but important qualities that enable you to work and interact with the people around you effectively.

Having great soft skills can be a huge game-changer as you go through your career and life. It can be the difference between getting people to believe in you or being forgotten, the difference between advancing a project or having it rejected, the difference between getting a promotion or finding yourself in yet another disappointing lateral move. These skills teach you not just to be a better employee but a stellar human being as well.

If you want to be unsuccessful in your life; you came to the right place today; here are the top 7 traits of highly unsuccessful people.

I hope you can take a look at your life and see if any of these 7 traits are impacting your journey to a magnificent life. We are not perfect and throughout your life, these traits will have a way of creeping back into your life.  You need to recognize it and eliminate it from your life. 

Remember: Behind every successful person there are a lot of unsuccessful years.

We all have heroes, people we look up to and inspire us to be the best we can be.  Heroes come in many ages, shapes, and sizes. Many of our heroes are everyday folks like you and me.  

Everybody’s heroes are different for each and every one of us.  The definition of a hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. 

My Dad, Alfredo (Fred) Herrera, is my hero.  He was a first-generation American who was born in La Union NM,  growing up on a farm. He was a self-made man who with a 6th-grade education and limited means raised himself to become a highly successful businessman, politician and most importantly a monumental person, husband, father, and grandfather.    

Let’s make one statement right now.  Everyone deserves to be at the highest levels of the Wealth Pyramid.  The Wealth Pyramid does not care what color you are, where you came from, what level of education you have or what gender you are. It does, however, mandate as a condition of membership that you be willing to transform your life, commit to the transformation, build an action plan/daily routine and execute it every day like your life depended on it.  

So, let's talk about the 5 levels of the Wealth Pyramid and what it means, and how to climb it.