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Lifestyle, Personal Development

Happy New Year!

2 Comments 04 January 2010

Hey guys,

I hope you all had an amazing holiday season! I know I sure did. I’ve spent the last couple weeks visiting my family in Canada and for the past few days I’ve been in Whitefish, Montana at Big Mountain Resort getting my snowboarding fix before I head back to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in just over a week.

So… for the first post of 2010, I wanted to share with you a short video message of my top 3 most achievable New Years resolutions that I have already started on this year. Remember: goals don’t always have to be massive. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great and absolutely necessary to have outrageous long-term goals (trust me, I have plenty and I am sure I will share them with you in a future post) but don’t underestimate the power of setting smaller, simpler goals. Get in the habit of achieving those and the easier it will be to reach those big goals!

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freelunch

Personal Development

mmm. Free Lunch.

10 Comments 01 August 2009

I recently started reading Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow RichAs you know, I am big time into personal development and usually try to have at least one great transformational book  on the go at any time. This particular book was never on my “must-read” list but when it was the only book that looked remotely interesting at the airport bookstore in Bali, I thought I’d give it a go. I mean it is a self-help classic and I figured that if so many personal development gurus I admire today credit Napoleon Hill for kick-starting their own personal growth, the book had to be a winner. Not to mention Hill’s promise to reveal Andrew Carnegie’s “super-secret formula to true and lasting success” and “having whatever you want in life.

How could I refuse?

Within minutes of reading it I realized that book was a bit outdated (it was, after-all, written in the 30’s) but I kept reading in hopes that if I thought hard enough money would start growing out of my ears. Needless to say that didn’t happen, but I did start feeling a bit green somewhere around chapter two.

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Featured on FinerMinds

Personal Development

Featured on FinerMinds

10 Comments 29 July 2009

Ok, so I realize I have to apologize for being completely MIA as of late.

After my travels a lot of random shit popped up and I had to put my blogging on hold for awhile. The good news is I am back and I promise to be updating my blog much more often. Thanks to everyone for the great messages I have received on my blog, Facebook and Twitter wondering when my next post will be! I am already half way through a great post that will be ready for you by tomorrow.

In the meantime, I wanted to share something exciting with you…

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Cut The Bullshit.

Personal Development

Cut The Bullshit.

21 Comments 02 June 2009

So by now you can probably tell that I don’t sugar coat anything. I say it how I see it… so with this one I am diving right in.

While laying next to the pool yesterday with my good friend Leanne, we started talking about the different types of people we know in our lives and why some of them have amazing success at almost everything they do in life, while others remain stagnant and miserable no matter how hard they seem to try.

We came to the conclusion that there are two types of people in the world.

The Hard-Hitters and The Bull-Shitters.

Here are the not-so-official definitions of each:

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It’s time to get grateful.

Personal Development

It’s time to get grateful.

12 Comments 23 May 2009

For my first post I decided to share with you something I do every single day and something that you can EASILY start applying in your life RIGHT NOW. It takes less than 30 seconds and it will change your life. You would have to be a complete moron to NOT do this. This magical little thing I am taking about is expressing gratitude. It may sound basic, but trust me… learning how to express gratitude on a regular basis will do you a world of good. I am a true believer that in order to have everything you want in life (and more) you first need to appreciate whole-heartedly what you DO have. Hell, even Oprah says that “the single greatest thing you can do to change your life today is to start being grateful for what you have right now.

If Oprah doesn’t convince you than maybe science does. Studies have proven that people who express their gratitude daily are 25% happier and significantly healthier than those who don’t.

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