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Stack

BeStack your activities. Diversify your investments. Compound your relationships. Multiply your money. Doing one thing well is great. This is how you begin. But only doing one thing well while never developing more skill sets is a recipe for disaster. You have to grow. You have to stretch. You have…

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Plan

Be I heard when I was a kid that if you Fail to Plan, you’re Planning to Fail. The older I get, the more I realize how true that old adage is. The opportunity for us to plan the actions that become the habits that help us achieve our goals…

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Completion

Be Running a race isn’t only about endurance. It’s about finishing well. Giving it everything you’ve got until the very end. Run to win. Don’t pull of the gas…step on it. Being the kind of person who wins is about taking yourself and your business all the way to completion.…

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Helpful?

Today, my post is a little bit selfishly motivated. I’d like to ask you to give me some feedback by responding to this email. Before I ask you for your feedback, I’d like to just share with you something that’s really important to me. This whole “FriendMaker” brand is growing.…

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Gratitude

Be “Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” “As a man thinks, so is he.” Your heart and mind are fertile ground. You must be like a gardener, a farmer, a caretaker. Weeds have a tendency to get into the soil. Negative thoughts have a tendency to…

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Permission

Be You’ve worked hard. You’ve been in the trenches everyday. You’ve been in the pit, grinding it out. Every bit of sweat, blood, and tears you’ve shed has brought you to this point… You aren’t where you want to be but you are definitely closer today than where you were…

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Needy

Be Nobody wants to be perceived as desperate. Desperate for attention. Desperate for love. Desperate for friendship. But the longer I live, the more I’m convinced: You and I are Needy. Yes. Needy. We don’t “need” anybody’s help, but really…we do. We say we don’t need attention, but our spirits…

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Persevere

Be Do you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? That rabbit was confident, proud, and naturally talented. He was a trash-talker, a hustler, and a “rock star”. He was recognized and regarded as the one everyone should be following. He had all the makings of a winner.…

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Money

Be It’s complicated. Your relationship with money. It’s complicated, isn’t it? If you’re like most people, you weren’t taught how to handle your finances, except that one time you took a class in school called “Personal Finance”. Do you remember it? I didn’t think so. But here’s the thing… in…

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Momentum

Be What if all of the experiences of your past were adding up and building momentum for you to carry you into a future that is so much bigger, wider, richer, and deeper than you could ever imagine? What if every pain, every tear, every struggle, every obstacle was like…

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