Sorry guys but someone has to say it: classes in school and college usually are really boring! So why are so many of us still spending so much time and money continuing to take classes we cannot wait to be over with? The REAL PROBLEM is that we get programmed to think that a CLASSROOM IS THE ONLY PLACE WE CAN LEARN! The truth is that I have learned more by doing independent study than I ever did in school AND taking responsibility for my own learning is the best thing I have ever done for my career. I hope in watching this video you can see that school might be boring but learning must be fun because a desire to learn is critical for growth and happiness while school is not. When we then sit in class and get disinterested with what the teacher is saying, the logical leap is that all studying is boring. While I used to think the time I spent in elementary school was fun, by middle school and junior high I thought learning was a waste of time because it was not fun and was not teaching me anything useful. With believing the only place I could really learn was in an lecture hall by the time I was in college, I gave up on actively trying to learn and considering anything related to be boring. Thankfully I was attracted to go back to university as a graduate student enrolled in a PHD program. As I continued my courses, I realized after becoming a founding member of the University of South Florida's doctoral leadership institute that while taking classes might be boring, learning for the right reasons was REALLY EXCITING! As I started reading book after book that my program required, I realized that if I kept learning on my own, I was free to choose what to study AND that meant I could craft myself into a person with really valuable knowledge in a very short amount of time. In the five years since then, I have been able to reach over 100 million people online with the videos I have made and have read or listed to more than 100 books from start to finish. Now I have a set of skills that I love using which is also very valuable to the work of business, startups, entrepreneurs online, and hopefully to you in living a happy life today. I share this with the hope you may be able to separate the boring nature of studying in class with the majestic experience of reading and learning! My exercise for today is to continue my habit of reading at least five books a day and watching at least 5 minutes of a video class online today. Thank you very much for watching or listening to this episode of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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How do I choose the best hourly rate for me to earn money consulting, freelancing, and working online? What in dollars per hour do I charge for my time? For being an entrepreneur making money especially with digital marketing on the internet, setting the amount I charge clients has been one of the single most challenging parts of my business. Where do I start? When do I know how to scale up? Why are clients not hiring me or why are so many clients paying right away? Is it best to charge upfront, half and half, or pay after? After 5 years of doing business online at as high as $1,000 per hour and often as low as literally paying to work, would you like to hear what I am doing today to set the bill for any new clients? You might enjoy seeing how I am now setting up what services I offer after years of ineffective systems both for me and for clients. As you listen to the discussion of pricing, I think you might be inspired to get to work on your ideal hourly rate and how you pitch it to clients as well! My exercise for today is to follow through creating the system I talk about here in this episode of Happier People podcast on day 84!

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After Googling feeding dogs vegan, the answer is YES! My rescue Labradors might live to 30+ YEARS OLD eating VEGAN on a WHOLE PLANT FOOD based diet based on stories of existing dog owners that already made the switch! WAIT you might say! DOGS ARE CARNIVORES RIGHT? NO! Dogs, like human beings, are omnivores meaning they can eat both plants and animals. What am I feeding my dogs to get them their protein and vitamins? This morning I fed them about a half can of no salt added black eyed peas (beans) with a half cup of cooked oatmeal and one scoop of almond butter. They get this same meal tonight with chickpeas or Kidney beans instead of black eyed peas and throughout the day they will get some fruit and vegetable snacks. Among all these different food groups, they receive a comprehensive nutritional balance covering all their basic needs according to what works for me as a human with an increase in protein because they are dogs. While veterinarians frequently recommend a mostly meat diet for dogs, most vets also do not expect dogs to live that long on that same diet because of the cancers our pets get. The problem goes back to a fundamental belief most of us have as humans that animal protein is better for us than plant protein. WHAT IF WE ARE WRONG? According to the science, eating more animal protein is associated with almost every single type of problem you could imagine from heart disease to cancer to brain disease to depression and low energy levels. WHY WOULDN'T ANYONE ELSE TELL US THIS? After over 30 years of believing animal protein was better for me, I discovered the science proving clearly that it is actually worse AND the reason why these facts are not widely known. Would you think for a moment about which companies would be completely destroyed by widespread knowledge that eating any type of animal product contributes to cancer MORE than smoking does? When I think about this, it covers not only so many restaurants, food industries, but also health care professionals and even our elected officials. The truth about the harmful impacts of eating anything from another animal would be an economic atomic bomb. After switching to my own mostly raw vegan diet seven months ago, I just realized how ridiculous it was that I was still feeding my dogs that I love and want to live a long time some of the worst food imaginable made out of meat that not even humans would want to eat! I am grateful for those that courageously shared this information with me today and share this with you so that you may receive the same benefits. I am excited to see how long my dogs live eating with the science in mind and will keep you updated! My exercise today is to practice gratitude for the brave men and women that have worked hard to bring me the most important facts and to continue being of service to you in the same way!

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Can I go 10 days on a mental health diet where I challenge my mind to give up getting into depression, anxiety, fear, frustration, anger, self-pity, annoyance, rage, resentment, and all the other toxic energies that it loves to feed on? Yesterday was day 1 and so is today because I only lasted 30 minutes before I had a total meltdown which I learned a lot from! Would you try this exercise with me to see inside of your own habits on a daily basis?

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Hear inside of a challenging day for me today filled with depression, self-pity, anger, hurt feelings, and frustration which motivated me to do extra work helping others today! What I hope to share is that the purpose of inconvenient and uncomfortable emotions seems to be to bring each of us closer to each other for learning unconditional love and acceptance. Today I am grateful for so many experiences of that and for a chance to share here with you again! My exercise is to reflect on what I have learned this day that I may use it to do better in the future and continue serving you as well as others!

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How would you feel each day without the fear of death threatening to take away everything you have worked so hard for? I remember in third grade when I started believing in dying after my grandfather passed away. Before that I only knew life! The idea of death did not exist for me and I was much happier without it. From the day I started placing my faith in a world of fear with death's shadow loomed over me just waiting for the right moment to end my life, the world and everything in it started to less alive and more dark. Twenty years into believing in the Grim Reaper, I could not take it anymore. Either I must leave this earth and find out what was next or stay here and remember the eternal life I had forgotten as a child. After listening to The Miracle of Mindfulness on Audible by Thich Nhat Hanh, I was ready to face death completely and investigate my belief in it. As I stepped into the shower, I started to focus intensely on exactly what my body's death might be like. The corpse laying dead somewhere. Morticians looking over the body to confirm how it died. Funeral home staff loading the body into the crematorium. Everything being burned away. To make it even worse, I threw in my loved ones after my body. Through crying and sobbing and pleading I was asking "Why Me" and "IT IS NOT FAIR!" Then the most amazing thing happened. My mind stopped. Thoughts of dying repeatedly were so torturous that my mind finally threw up its hands and said ENOUGH I GIVE UP! With no thoughts at all, I looked around. My body was sitting in the shower because it had been crying so hard that was best for safety. Water was pouring down from the shower head all over it. Suddenly being alive seemed like the most amazing gift. Next to the fullness of life the little idea of death seemed to be ridiculous. Life was going on everywhere and I was in the middle of it. Where was the monster of death? Unseen and unimportant. Suddenly I experienced what might be called a laughing fit or laughing revelation. All of the love in the universe was obviously given to me. It always had been and always would be. Crying in sorrow switched to crying in joy because in experiencing what it was like to "die" I now felt explosive gratitude like a second chance at life. In that shower I felt like everything was brand new like the entire universe just popped into existence. Water running down my face felt hilarious. How luxurious to have running water inside! Bathroom tiles looked alive and each unique. If you have seen Bad Boys II and remember the part where Martin Lawrence was on drugs and said "Do you ever just RUB YOUR LEATHER", it might have looked a bit like that. Out of the shower I emerged feeling reborn as if I had just been unplugged from the matrix and given a second life. With seeing through the illusion of death, I was truly free again. Fortunately I was able to make a video immediately afterwards sharing my experience which I will watch with you live at the end of the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=254MAU42iak.

Absent of a fear of dying, life leaves little else to be afraid of because of the peace in knowing that any pain will fade and be forgotten while all the love and joy in life are forever. I even managed to make a video right after this experience which was over two years ago that you might enjoy watching. My exercise is to remember this today because just as I learned to believe in dying in third grade and unlearned it two years ago, I work today to not take on the fear of death again as something I believe in. Thank you very much for experiencing this with me and I hope you have a magical day today!

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In listening to Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander on Audible at http://amzn.to/2kEC7B4 I loved hearing how consciousness is not simply a product of our brains but is actually a phenomenon that occurs independently of the body. It appears that our soul bonds with our body during this life. While Dr. Eben Alexander as a Neurosurgeon originally believed that being conscious occurs completely in the human brain, his own near death experience or NDE left him with memories that from a scientific point of view were impossible because technically he was brain-dead when he had them. I loved listening to him actually tell his story in this audio version of this and share my experience with you today with the hope that you have the opportunity for the same experience! Reading this book is great proof of reincarnation and offers a gateway into freedom from death. If you buy the book on Amazon using my link I will be grateful to receive a few cents from Amazon as a thank you at http://amzn.to/2kEC7B4.

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Writing a Love Letter to Heal Feelings and Return to Happiness is really helpful for getting out of feelings I do not like and getting back into the joy of living! I learned this from Dr. John Gray the author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and What You Feel You Can Heal both of which are books I listened to on Audible. Dr. John Gray as also written Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress which I have purchased on Audible and will be reading soon. I hope in explaining the love letter technique for experiencing, healing, and transcending fear, anger, hurt, depression, rejection, anxiety, regret, and any other painful emotion that you are able to use it in your life to get the same results I do. If you are in recovery, the love letter method is similar to doing a fourth step fearless moral inventory where you look at everything and then find a way to move forward with the whole truth in mind. My exercise for today is to continue to practice the love letter in real time in my mind to quickly process, feel, and pass through each learning opportunity I receive in my life in the form of what looks like negative feelings. Thank you for reading this description of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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