Most people gravitate towards the easy and choosing the path of least resistance.

We tend to avoid doing the hard stuff and continue to look for shortcuts.

But greatness is never achieved that way.

In order to succeed in today’s world – in a culture that encourages shortcuts and quick fixes, we must learn to do hard, better.

In this episode, you’ll discover how today’s world discourages important life skills. You’ll also learn why they’re important and how to use those skills to live up to your full potential, build a successful life, career and businesses.

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Show Highlights Include:

• An acronym that describes how technology depletes our emotional intelligence. ([02:07])
• Why entertainment round the clock is bad for our brain health (and how being bored instead benefits us). ([03:41])
• How to achieve genius-level performance. ([05:05])
• How unpopular teachers help us imbibe important life skills (even with their unbearable methods). ([06:38])
• The commitment technique used in the 1950s to build a profitable business (and you can use it even if you’re heavily disadvantaged). ([12:52])

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.

People make success to be too complicated. They read thousands of books searching for the hidden secret only to be more confused.

Like anything else, success is simple if you look at the basics.

All coaches that created winning teams knew the basics.

They employed the basics to their teams like clockwork until they won championships.

In this episode, you’ll discover the basics of success that all successful coaches used to lead NFL teams to victory that you can use in everyday life.

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Show highlights include:

• Three key ingredients to sustained success that Superbowl coaches use to create winning teams. ([6:00])
• The success traits of winners that leave your competition in the dust (even a 16-year-old can use)
• The Navy Seals secret to leading powerful teams to overcome any obstacle in life ([12:00])
• How Vince Lombardi won 5 NFL championships (even with so many odds stacked against him) ([15:20])

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.

Focus is a must to achieve success, but concentrated focus is critical to sustaining any kind of success, regardless of the endeavor.

However, our focus appears to be diminishing to dangerous levels. 

And it’s no surprise we’re so distracted.

In this age of technology and digital overload, we’re saturated with content and overwhelmed with sounds and images competing for our attention every second.

So how do we increase our focus and build concentration?

In this episode, you’ll discover how a lack of focus negatively affects you. You’ll learn effective focus management techniques that help you build laser-like focus and keep you moving toward your goals.

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Show Highlights Include:

• How sights and sounds from digital devices kill our focus and reconfigure our brain negatively. ([2:00])
• Why you need to build concentration (and how neglecting it can introduce chaos in our lives) ([4:15])
• How a lack of focus decimates our careers, retention ability and relationships. ([4:06])
• 5 focus management techniques that rewire our brains and renew focus. (and how temporary amnesia drives us towards our goals) ([08:34])

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.

Imagine going through your day without a set of values guiding your behavior. The slightest temptation can blow you off course at any given time.

When we don’t live by a particular set of values, our conduct will fluctuate and become inconsistent.

How can we fix that? By having a code of conduct.

A code of conduct is a compass for life. It keeps us headed in the right direction. And with it, we know exactly what we’re not willing to compromise. 

In this episode, you’ll discover why you should build a set of values and a code of conduct that will help you build and maintain success.

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Show Highlights Include:

• Why Starbucks, Kellogg’s and Helwett-Packard make their employees abide by a code of conduct. ([1:28])
• Why you need a set of values to guide you morally, ethically and spiritually. ([4:15])
• A critical foundational aspect you must develop in order to build and sustain success (most people overlook this detail). ([5:26])
• The 5 core values of the Code of the West from the book ‘Cowboy Ethics: What It Takes To Win At Life’ (and how you can apply those values in today’s world). ([7:20])
• 10 principles you can use to establish your own code of conduct. ([9:35])

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.

All of us can get stuck in a rut. We feel defeated, worried, and overwhelmed at everything. There is no forward momentum and our brain comes up with excuses.

Ruts sap your energy and keep you from being the best person you can be. And that’s where many get stuck for decades. Pulling yourself out of a rut requires nurturing, love, and feelings of joy. 

You can’t pull yourself out of a rut when you’re stuck in your own head.

In this episode, you’ll discover how to experience more joy in any environment and win the day.

Show Highlights Include:

• Using NPR’s Pandemic Research to find joy and inspiration (when you’ve got yourself stuck in a rut). ([1:36])
• Apostle Paul’s advice for calling on your most powerful emotions to create the future you want. ([3:42])
• The ‘Why’ Theory for replacing your worst feelings with drive and purpose.  ([7:30]) 
• How to create opportunity anywhere in life using a wizard, chicken sandwich, and mouse.  ([8:43])
• How to unleash your imagination and win the day using Martin Luther King Jr’s measurement of time.  ([10:20])

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.

Whether it’s athletes, entrepreneurs or artists: We admire people who excel at their craft. Excellence is awe-inspiring and makes us wish we were at the same level. 

But excellence isn’t reserved for those with extraordinary talent. It’s something available to you right now. You can choose to be excellent today and every day after that. 

When you choose excellence, you’ll feel empowered to tackle any challenge and inspire the people around you to become excellent as well. 

In this episode, you’ll find out how to choose excellence to become the best version of you possible. 

Want to excel and inspire everyone around you? Listen now! 

Show highlights include:

• How a college class on rhetorical history can teach you how to put excellence on autopilot ([0:58])
• The counterintuitive way a short-ter daily habit can turn into monumental long-term success ([4:08])
• What Kobe Bryant’s trainer can teach you about becoming unstoppable (even if your goals have nothing to do with sports) ([8:37])
• How being totally exhausted can fill you with immeasurable joy. ([13:01])

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.

We have all been offended at some point in our lives. And whether the person knows they offended you or had no idea, it probably ruined the relationship. 

When you feel doubt and disappointment in someone, it’s impossible to see past the situation. You never resolve things and still feel the pain from yesterday. 

But refusing to let go only tarnishes your future. You can’t feel kindness from others or find new opportunities. Learning not to be offended is the highest form of freedom to yourself. You choose what controls you. 

In this episode, you’ll discover the freedom of not getting offended (and how to move through your past).

Show Highlights Include:

• How to soothe your sensitive spirit and bring peace to your relationships (even when you feel like exploding into anger). ([0:52])
• The two emotions blocking you from having healthy conversations and healing pain. ([2:00])
• Using John the Baptist to heal from offensive situations and move past grudges to make yourself and other happier. ([5:26]) 
• Why you can lose anger and release the resentment (without being offended again).  ([8:30])

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 human being who has ever existed has felt downtrodden, lost, and in the dumps. It’s a part of the human experience — but it also unlocks an opportunity to change every life you encounter. 

Why? 

Because obstacles borne inspirational people who leave the world better off than when they joined it. And that, my friend, can be you after listening to this episode. 

In this episode, you’ll discover how to become an inspirational leader that makes every person you meet better. 

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Show Highlights Include:

• How to galvanize yourself into achieving your dreams simply by watching movies ([0:30])
• 4 books to read before the end of the year to inspire you to make 2023 your best year yet ([1:34])
• How to inspire every person around you by seeking discomfort and tribulation ([3:10])
• The “Gift from God” parenting technique for raising your children to inspire everyone they meet ([7:55]) 

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.

What is your ultimate goal in life? And more importantly, what steps are you taking today to achieve that goal? 

Here’s why I ask:

When we set goals, especially massive goals, it can burden us with stress. This type of stress results in procrastination, perfectionism, and giving up. But when you set proper expectations, you control your attitude and your actions. 

In fact, these expectations are the difference between reaching your wildest goals or giving up on them because you didn’t realize how close to them you were. 

In this episode, you’ll discover how expectations free you from stress and help you conquer your dreams with ease.

Listen now. 

Show Highlights Include:

• Why reaching only 50% of your goals gives you a “hall-of-fame” career in any endeavor you try ([1:15]) 
• The simple 2-step formula for unleashing joy throughout your body (even if others upset you) ([3:01])
• The “Daily Expectations” secret for achieving almost any goal you strive for ([4:37])
• How to free yourself from the insidious shackles of stress other people put on you ([6:53])