Servants are an important ingredient that holds communities and families together.

Serving others helps build strong communities and changes the lives of others around you. Even something as simple as offering a helping hand can make a massive difference in somebody’s life. 

It is a catalyst for achieving greater things, both as an individual and as a community.

And it can be your very first step toward becoming a more  effective leader.

In this episode, you’ll discover the importance of servanthood to your community and world at large. You’ll also see how to spark happiness within yourself by sharing joy with others.

Listen now. 

Show Highlights Include:

• How servanthood changes lives and builds strong communities (and how to use it to be an effective leader) ([1:01])
• How servanthood eliminates two of the biggest challenges that haunts our communities. ([1:44])
• The positive impact of World War II (and what you can learn from the people who lived in that era). ([2:27])
• How paying forward a stranger’s kindness saved me from despair (and how to inject joy into your life even when you’re depressed). ([6:42])

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.

Our brain is one of the most important organs in our body.

It’s a powerhouse that drives us everyday.

We’ve not even begun to use its full potential power. Experts agree that we only use a small fraction of our brain power at any given time.

But just like other muscles in your body, if you don’t use your brain you’ll eventually lose function of it.

So we must keep training it. 

In this episode, you’ll discover how you can significantly improve your brainpower and cognitive skills. I’ll reveal the habits that increase the risk losing function of your brain at later stages of your life, and how you can avoid them.

Listen now. 

Show Highlights Include: 

– The tactics my wife used to significantly improve my mother’s memory (you can use them even if you’re above 80) ([1:14])
– How you can use my annoying professor’s ‘no-calculator’ policy to develop your brain power. ([2:11])
– How navigating without electronic devices during road trips can increase your cognitive function and math, astronomy and logic skills. ([5:49])
– Why using GPS can weaken your brain (and how you can train your brain to avoid early dementia) ([8:33])

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.

Every day, you are faced with hundreds (or even thousands) of choices. Every step you take brings you face to face with yet another choice, and it can quickly make you frustrated and overwhelmed. But there is hope for you!

In this episode, Dr. Rick discusses ways to reduce the complexity in your life, a book that can give you a profound mindset shift with your decision, and a proven method to bring peace and calm to your daily life.

Show Highlights Include:

• Your psychotic lust for this keeps your life more complicated than necessary ([4:55])
• Doing this can transform your work from simply being busy to being truly productive ([5:32])
• This book could be just what you need to transform your unmanageable life ([6:29])
• 3 ways simplifying things can make you happier and more fulfilled ([7:12])
• The Navy Seal’s secret to being organized ([9:34])
• These three W’s can bring a sense of calm and peace to your day ([10:43]) 

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.

Many people view solitude as a negative experience. But often this comes from confusing solitude with loneliness.

Done right, solitude provides nearly unlimited opportunities for reflection and personal growth.

In this episode, I discuss the benefits of life-changing benefits of solitude, why we avoid being alone, and ways you can begin practicing solitude immediately.

Show Highlights Include:

• Why solitude got a bad reputation and how it can improve your life immediately ([1:37])
• Scientific evidence that solitude makes you more creative ([7:04])
• How daydreaming makes your life better and how solitude makes you better at it ([7:51])
• Why having alone time reduces depression ([8:33])
• The truth about why we seek “noise” and avoid being along with our thoughts ([10:56])

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.

Could you use a little more joy in your life? So many people go through life focused on what they lack that they forget to be grateful for what they have. Worse yet, our consumer culture encourages us to fixate on this lack.

This robs us of our joy.

In this episode, I discuss my best tips for living in the moment and increasing the amount of joy in your life, making you happier and more pleasant to be around.

Show Highlights Include:

• A simple step you can take today to ensure yourself a joyful life ([2:31])
• A surefire way to live in the moment and experience joy that’s been eluding you ([3:59])
• Exactly how consumer culture robs you of joy and how you can fight back ([4:12])
• Why joy is not found in a specific moment and how to attract it like a joy magnet ([6:10])
• Why laughing at yourself makes people take you more seriously ([8:56])
• How to instantly make your environment more joyful ([11:42])
• “Black Belt” secrets to facing your fear and achieving more in your life ([12:38])
• A common obsession that sucks joy from your life and how to overcome it ([15:09])

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.

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.

Has failure in your finances, relationships, or business put an abrupt stop to your life? Are you stuck wallowing in self-pity, unsure how to get things back on track?

Failure is a common obstacle we all have to face. In this episode, Dr. Rick is joined by Kevin Breeding as they tell you exactly how to overcome and blow past failure to regain your forward momentum.

Show Highlights Include:

• The life-changing lessons you can’t learn from success ([1:30])
• One brutal question you must answer to begin overcoming failure ([5:57])
• Is this fatal mistake keeping you stuck in frustration and defeat? ([7:10])
• The surprisingly simple first step to regaining control of your life ([7:43])
• What top-level execs understand about failure that you don’t ([16:15])
• The 2 counterintuitive principles successful people always keep in mind to push through any situation ([17:03])

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.

Have you ever felt like you were stuck? Your life and business were stagnant and you just couldn’t seem to break free? Perhaps you were facing doubt and “what-ifs” in your mind.

In today’s podcast episode, Dr. Rick explains the root cause of fear, what to do about it and how to use this to gain and maintain forward momentum.

Show Highlights Include:

• Are lazy employees draining your business? Harvard Business Review says this is the #1 key to reigniting their motivation ([2:28])
• Is this habit causing you to fail? ([2:47])
• How to execute the inner voice that’s sowing seeds of doubt in your mind ([5:49])
• The simple remedy for fear you can use anywhere, anytime ([8:51])
• Eliminate this success-killing word from your vocabulary ([14:49])
• What to say to yourself when you’re too scared to do anything else ([15:15])

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.

While some of us spend our lives looking for blessings in the midst of chaos, others spend their time being the blessing. And by treating others with a willing heart and open mind, the world slowly mends itself from hate and division. 

In this episode, you’ll learn why anyone can be a blessing to others and how giving a simple smile today strengthens the bonds of social engagement for a better tomorrow. 

Show Highlights Include:

• What a plate of food reveals about the bonds of social engagement – and how to encourage and love your neighbors (no matter your circumstances). ([0:25])
• Why social media activism accomplishes nothing in the real world – and the small acts of kindness that bring immediate change to your community.  ([2:30])
• What Bruce Almighty’s mistakes reveal about looking for blessings – and how you can instantly be one instead. ([5:45])
• What Sister Jean says about encouraging others on a daily basis and how you can be a blessing through every step in life (regardless of what’s happening in the world). ([6:55])

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.

Helping others is a virtue that seems to be disappearing in modern society. Our fast-paced lifestyle often leads us to put ourselves before everyone else so that we can get it all done.

But a rising tide lifts all boats, and helping others makes our entire world better off. 

In this episode, I discuss one of the greatest helpers in history and how his good deeds continue to positively affect our society more than 100 years later. 

Show Highlights Include:

• The desirable characteristic that makes you irresistible and invaluable to everyone around you ([1:53])
• Invaluable life lessons from the little-known American who was one of history’s greatest helpers ([3:45])
• How George Washington Carver is still helping Midwestern farmers to this day and what you can learn from this (even if you’ve never seen a farm) ([9:06])
• 8 “Cardinal Virtues” that can make you a more effective and well-liked person ([12:06])

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.