Obstacles are inevitable. What you do when faced with obstacles can crush you or take you new levels. 

What goes through your mind when life places seemingly insurmountable hurdles in your path?

Vision lets you see opportunities other people miss. 

In this episode, I discuss how vision transforms failure into mind-blowing success, brings your dreams to life, and helps you leave the struggles of your past behind.

Show Highlights Include:

• How vision can prevent obstacles from destroying your dreams ([2:32])
• How an Olympic gold medalist’s used vision to overcome an insurmountable handicap ([7:05])
• Why you can develop a grand vision for the future no matter how bad your past ([8:51])
• How to develop vision even when you’ve lost almost all hope ([12:19])
• Why you should welcome uncertainty into your life (especially if it terrifies you) ([13:12])
• The worst word in the dictionary and how vision makes it a thing of the past ([13:55])
• Why Martin Luther King Jr was able to overcome impossible challenges to become a legendary leader ([14:34])

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Our society has a variety of ways to convince you that someone or something is valuable. Titles, wealth, cost, status, and many others.

Friends, don’t buy into the lie. 

When we allow superficial standards to influence our judgments of value, we risk missing out on the best life has to offer.

In this episode, I share the hidden dangers of judgmental attitudes, adopting society’s value standards, and how you can overcome them to understand the truth about what is valuable.

Show Highlights Include:

• How to magically transform an inexpensive item into something of incalculable worth ([5:14])
• Why our standards for status and worth trick us into valuing the wrong things ([5:49])
• What a $5 typewriter can teach you about value ([8:48])
• Dirty lies society tells us about a person’s value and how you can appreciate their true worth ([10:08])
• How a judgmental attitude can stunt your personal growth ([10:39])

Do you want to stop existing and start living your best life right now? Click here to get the first chapter of Dr. Rick’s best-selling book, Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, for free.

Character seems to be in short supply these days. And our shallow, superficial culture doesn’t help. In fact, it works in sneaky, subversive ways to prevent you from building up your character.

So how do you overcome these forces of evil to improve your character and quality of life?

In this episode, Dr. Rick discusses how your character changes the world (for better or worse), the struggles you’ll face in attempting to build your character, and why society is bent on keeping you from improving yourself.

Show Highlights Include:

• Why global character change is not someone else’s problem and how you can make the world a better place ([1:01])
• How the media perverts our view of restoration to cash in (and how to find the truth) ([2:04])
• 2 sinister forces you will battle when building a better life ([3:04])
• Three subtle ways that modern society combats those who want to improve their character ([5:01])
• The one place you must begin your restoration efforts, or they’ll never work ([5:38])
• Essential character lessons from grandma and grandpa that will fix your priorities ([6:00])
• Why society’s definition of success leads to your failure ([7:20])
• Character building secrets from one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time ([9:45])
• Why good character has been on the decline since the 19th century (and what to do about it) ([11:12])

Do you want to stop existing and start living your best life right now? Click here to get the first chapter of Dr. Rick’s best-selling book, Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, for free.

Carpe diem. Seize the day. These words are easy to say, but how do you do it? You may get overwhelmed with the idea of seizing the day if you think it requires grand gestures or huge acts of service (that you don’t have the time, energy or money for!)

But thankfully that’s not the case. Small actions can make a tremendous impact in your life and the lives of those around you.

In this episode, mindset and business coach Kevin Breeding and I discuss why the little things are a big deal, the importance of authenticity, and why you should take risks in life.

Show Highlights Include:

• The misguided ideas about seizing the moment cause you to miss out on what’s most important ([2:07])
• How to “seize the moment” to create lasting family relationships ([2:25])
• Why “tiptoeing” through life only achieves death ([4:28])
• Why overlooking the little things drains your life of meaning and impact ([6:30])
• How you can meaningfully connect with your loved ones, even if you’re halfway across the world ([7:04])
• Small ways to make a huge difference in your community ([9:40])
• Why the scariest goals are the ones most worth pursuing ([12:03])
• The profound life lessons you can learn by visiting with senior citizens ([12:51])
• How to crush overwhelm when confronting your biggest goals ([14:00])

Do you want to stop existing and start living your best life right now? Click here to get the first chapter of Dr. Rick’s best-selling book, Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, for free.