“Don’t orbit around somebody else’s plan or somebody else’s worldview, and be proactive about setting up a Solar System that reflects your own understanding…your own “laws,” if you will.”

Here’s a great new video called “5 Time-Management Tips MADE EASY (Just In Case You Forgot)” based on an older, written blog post of the same name. Enjoy:

What if I told you that there are actually four *different* “learning styles,” that if you knew and used to structure the knowledge you had to share, you’d ALWAYS be listened to…that people would seek YOU out to learn from and that you’d never ignored (or thought of as “whacko” or preachy) again???

“Every productive person I know has someone they work with, someone they went to school with or someone in their family (or all 3 and then some) that’s THE DIRECT OPPOSITE of what they’re aspiring towards, and that person motivates them in reverse.”

It’s interesting: we spend so much time trying to “be motivated” that we don’t see ourselves wasting all the motivation we naturally have stored inside.

LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION: let’s say you drive home late today (like, three in the morning) and accidentally run a red light…do you take yourself down to court tomorrow and go, “Hey, I ran a traffic signal last night by mistake, but since a cop wasn’t around to stop me, I came here to pay the fine myself…”???

“Look at what you do when you turn the lights off: you play the day’s events over and over in your mind…you mull over mistakes and disagreements… you think about a deadline racing up…you worry about your kids’ grades…you dwell on PROBLEMS.”

“If you find yourself having trouble with any affirmation-related practice, make sure none of the following apply…here’s the top 3 most common mistakes I find people making ALL THE TIME“

Most of us (and I even catch myself sometimes) respond to our cellphones like one of the slaves Harriet Tubman COULDN’T get to leave the plantation, and don’t even realize how ridiculously absurd this conditioning is…

Technology is UNDERMINING your productivity, not raising it. Hyper-connectivity and information overload inhibit concentration, disrupt important relationships and sabotage your ability to think and act creatively more then anything else…