The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on Things

I’ve decided to start cultivating great content from other sources once in a while to help add value to my blog. This will help me focus more on writing books and stories while still helping you achieve your most important goals! Here for you now is a great article about a phenomenon known as the Akrasia … Read more

SMART FOCUS Book 1 Pre-Launch!

The moment I’ve been waiting for is nearly here. The first book of the three-book series I’ve been working on for over a year, SMART FOCUS Book 1: How to Stay S.M.A.R.T. and Achieve Your Most Important Goals One Step at a Time, is now just a couple weeks away from launch! Read more

Goodbye 2015, New Goals for 2016

We’re one month into 2016, and already my goals for 2016 are gaining momentum toward success! Follow me as I share with you what my goals for 2016 are and one of the tools I’m using to help me achieve them. Passion Planner with Staedtler PensRead more

Goals for 2015: Quarter 1 Updates

2015 has already hurled past the first quarter (Q1), so it’s time for an update on how my goals for 2015 are coming along.  After several setbacks (one of which includes this post itself), I’m proud to say that my main focus has still been on my number one priority for the year: Writing. FOCUS … Read more

More Goals Achieved: New Website Banner & Email List

This week I decided to kick things up a notch by taking several steps toward my goals.  I lost a few hours of sleep, but I ended up getting much more done than I had planned.

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New Website Banner

One of the things I did to step up my game was to install a new banner for my website.  I actually had my graphic designer create this at the beginning of the year, but I couldn’t seem to find the time to add it to my (growing) list of things to do.

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In Search of the Perfect Planner

3 Extraordinary Planners that Will Help Move You Toward Your Goals

A Shift in Planner “Status Quo”

While on my search for a new weekly planner earlier this month, I first considered ordering the same style I’ve been using for 2014. Confident I had settled in my decision, I began to search for it online and had almost purchased it when I ran across a different, more unique planner.

And when I first laid eyes on it, I knew it was the next planner I would be trying out for the new year in 2015.

This newfound planner wasn’t like the ordinary one I had been using all year with the typical format most offer: Monthly layout with daily/weekly slots for filling in the same old overwhelming tasks and projects.  You see, I had experienced a calendar overload in 2014, and I was ready for a change.

No, this one was extraordinary; what you might call a “Next Level” planner. It didn’t have any “bells and whistles” or try to impress me; rather, it had all the tools I needed to inspire me to take massive actions that moved me toward my goals.

But before I go into the details and benefits of this particular planner, I would first like to introduce a few other options I discovered—and also found very intriguing—along the way.  Let’s see if you can guess which planner I chose…no skipping ahead, either!

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Need a Planner that Fits Your Passions for 2015?

The New Planner for Your Passions

Looking for a new planner that will help you achieve your goals and pursue your passions for 2015? Me too! Well, actually, I’ve already purchased a new planner for next year, but I just came across a great new planner that I just absolutely have to try.  But I need your help to get one of my own.

I’m planning (no pun intended) on doing a blog post soon about the planner I originally ordered, comparing it to last year’s planner, but wouldn’t it be even better if I had a third option to join the panel? Here’s how you can get your very own Passion Planner…and help me get one, too!

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5 Proven Tips I’ve Learned for Effective Goal Setting in 2014

Nearly a year has come and gone and with it some “hits and misses” when it comes to reaching the goals I’ve set for myself this year.  Some were more realistic and achievable than others.  In this post, I’ll share with you via Google Hangouts some tips I’ve learned this year from tracking my goals and how you can use my experience to help further your goal-setting progress in the years ahead.

Watch the companion video to this article below

http://youtu.be/4aHyBvf7OlQ?t=38m24s

 To see when I first began tracking my goals in January of 2014, watch the video below or go to this corresponding article: Being a “Guitarpreneur” in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZK5nmAYiW8

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The One Book I Try to Read EVERY Year

F.O.C.U.S.

Follow One Course Until Successful.

It’s the one thing that seems to elude me as well as most of the world, especially in the technologically advanced age in which we live.  There are plenty of distractions to tickle our never satiated appetites:

  • The latest new gadget that hits the shelves only weeks after we purchased its predecessor.
  • The constant barrage of the many “To-Do” lists we keep on a daily basis.
  • The never-ending search for so-called “balance” in life between career, family, faith, and personal time.
  • And do you really need all those notifications chirping in your ear or catching your eye to let you know you’ve yet another (unimportant) message from the latest social media time-sucking mini-game?

And this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg.

Now more than ever the one commodity that people are in short supply of in faminous proportions is FOCUS.

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