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    The 10 Thought Habits of People with High Self-Worth

    Reading Time: 8 minutes Self-worth is self-love. It means being on your own team. It means giving yourself the same respect, dignity, and understanding you want for your loved ones. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? The consequences of low self-worth can be huge. Depression, risky behaviors, the...
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    4 Ways You Can Experience More Gratitude (Starting Right Now)

    Reading Time: 5 minutes What would you say if I told you there was a revolutionary treatment available that can reduce pain, improve mood, transform sleep, prevent disease, and make you feel better about yourself — and it’s on the market at no cost to you? The truth is these aren’t even half of...
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    The Unstoppable Power of Your Small Daily Choices

    Reading Time: 8 minutes Recently, I was traveling for a seminar and struck up conversation with a cool dude on the plane. While we were sharing our goals and aspirations, he generously gave me the book he was reading, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. The book was all about the principle that...
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    A 90-Minute Nightly Routine That Will Make You a Rockstar Tomorrow

    Reading Time: 7 minutes I plan ahead. It is my disaster-preparedness approach to setting myself up for a positive day. I started to plan ahead because I could no longer stand the disorganized chaos my life had become. If there is anything that we’ve become familiar with this year, it’s...
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    How to Build Meaningful Relationships (and What Stops Us)

    Reading Time: 6 minutes There are two things that separate us from our grandparents’ generation: We’re more distracted (that’s bad) We’re more committed to growth and enlightenment (that’s good). In fact, the personal growth industry is growing 6% year over year! This means we have more...
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    The Best Gift You Can Give a Loved One This Holiday Season

    Reading Time: 6 minutes I recently met a friend for lunch. We spent an hour catching up on personal details, sharing ideas, and soothing each other’s confessed failures. Our dialogue undulated back and forth naturally as we took in each other’s words, facial expressions, voice modulations, and...
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    Why We Instinctually React with No (and How to Be a Yes)

    Reading Time: 7 minutes Imagine you’re in an audience at a play. You’re comfortable and really enjoying the show. At some point, the actor decides he needs to demonstrate a point. He scans the crowd and points to you. Everybody turns and stares. You’ve been selected to participate in something...
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    How to Stop Holiday Stress (and Still Love Your Family)

    Reading Time: 5 minutes The holiday season is traditionally portrayed as a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness, where we give thanks for the past and look forward to the future. In reality, it’s usually a time when we try to squeeze more things — parties, shopping, social activities...
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    How to Rebound from Life’s (Inevitable) Disappointments

    Reading Time: 6 minutes The idea that suffering is inevitable (and subsequently, that suffering is an integral step toward enlightenment) is central to many religions, including Buddhism and Christianity. Why do so many religions address suffering? I believe it’s for good reason: every human...
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    ‘Be That Guy’: Why Asking Questions About Food is a Great Thing

    Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the phrases that was coined during the very first Whole Life Challenge was “Be That Guy.” Being That Guy entails being the pest at the restaurant or the market or the party who is asking questions about how food is made. What’s in the marinade? What’s in the salad...
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    The Stories of Our Lives

    Reading Time: 2 minutes French writer Marcel Proust said, “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul blossom.” We tend to look for the presence of grand gestures and big results in an effort to mark and celebrate our lives, and yet it’s...
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    Be an Action Hero

    Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re human, and I’m assuming most of you are, you likely think about a “perfect” life sometimes. I don’t mean peace, love, and harmony kind of perfect, I mean that one where you have the perfect job, perfect body, perfect relationship, and perfect mate. In that...
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    Embrace the Gap: Why You Shouldn’t Compare Your Ideal Life to Reality

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s talk a little more about your ideal life and your actual life. It’s an important idea because, like I said on Tuesday, they’re both “real” in some sense. Neither one is 100% true, and neither is 100% false. Your ideal life is unattainable. Not because you can’t...
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    Closing the Circle: Why Reflection is an Important Part of the Whole Life CHallenge

    Reading Time: 3 minutes The Whole Life Challenge didn’t always include a daily reflection as one of the scoring components. When we first created the Challenge, the scoring categories were simple: Yes or no. You either did something or you didn’t. And it worked really well that way, too. People...
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    The Risk Is the Reward: The Importance of Facing Fear

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I have always loved food. I loved the way it felt, the way it smelled, the way it could be manipulated, and the way it could become something unrecognizable, and yet more amazing than any raw ingredient could have led you to imagine. I went to culinary school. And I...
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    Would You Run a Company the Way You Run Your Life?

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I ran into an old friend and client recently. The last time I saw Tom was a few years back, when he was still working out out at the gym I coached at and starting his own business. We caught up quickly on what was going on in our lives. He talked about running his...
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    The 8 Best TED Talks for the Whole Life Challenge

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve always loved TED Talks. They’re like mini-seminars on an almost endless variety of topics. Originally a platform for some of the most elite experts, TED Talks now happen all over the country and host highly specialized individuals who have a unique point of view...
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    Motion, Contemplation, and Growth

    Reading Time: 2 minutes There comes a time when the time has come. You’re no longer satisfied with the way things are. You’re not unhappy, but there’s this sneaking sensation that you’re interested in what might lie just around the corner. We live in good times, and in spite of the fact that...
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    5 Tools to Inspire and Engage Your Community

    Reading Time: 5 minutes You’re a leader. Don’t believe me? Then ask yourself this: Do you have kids? Do you have officemates? Do have friends? Have you ever tried to positively influence their lives or enroll them in an activity? Well, then you’ve acted on being a leader. Which also means you...
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    99 Percent of the Pressure

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I am an avowed perfectionist. I find it intimidating to share my setbacks and struggles publicly. I even have a hard time acknowledging them to myself. For a long time I imagined I was in the minority. That I was one of the few people who couldn’t give themselves a...
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