Everyone gets stuck from time to time. It feels like nothing is working, and we get trapped in an endless cycle of self-pity. We want to stay stuck.

Feeling stuck encourages procrastination and inactivity. You have to fight back against that feeling.

In this episode, I discuss why baby steps are important to get unstuck and how you can get your life back on track when you have lost all hope.

Show Highlights Include:

• The counterintuitive time to reach out in support of a person who has lost a loved one ([2:56])
• A simple choice that can change everything for the better when you feel stuck in your worst moment ([11:31])
• Why the smallest steps forward make the biggest impact when you feel hopelessly stuck ([13:58])
• How to crush overwhelm and fear of failure to take the steps necessary to get your life back ([12:55])

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.

If you’re not growing, you’re dying. This is true for everything from your health to your mind to your professional skills.

You may be an expert in your field today, but if you don’t continue to grow and adapt, you’ll get left behind.

The ability and desire to learn is crucial to achieving and maintaining your success.

In this episode, I discuss why learning is important and how to regain the love for learning that education stole from you.

Show Highlights Include:

• The “Jack Dorsey Question” you can ask daily to launch you to the top of your field ([2:52])
• How learning every day defends your brain from the devastating effects of entropy ([4:01])
• The Lifetime Learner mindset shift that can instantly make you look forward to learning (even if you hated traditional education) ([4:22])
• Why school prevents you from learning and how to reprogram yourself today ([4:48])
• A simple but profound question the most effective leaders ask to help them get through the most challenging situations ([11:53])

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.

A single decision can change the world for the better. But indecisiveness leads to procrastination, overthinking, and failure. 

Decisions have the power to motivate and inspire. But lack of decision can lead to frustration and resentment.

In this episode, I discuss why indecisiveness causes businesses to fail and a framework for making your best decision (even in the worst circumstances). 

Show Highlights Include:

• The surprising factor that motivated employees to work their hardest for a company, and how to put it to work for you (hint: it’s not money) ([1:31])
• What your body has to tell you about making the decisions and why you should pay attention ([4:24])
• A golden rule to follow for guidance when the right decision to make is unclear ([7:30])
• The 3-pronged decision-making process that leads to the best action to take in your unique circumstance ([8:56])
• Why dreams are enough to move you in the right direction toward achieving your goals ([9:33])
• How a single decision led Beverly Cleary to sell over 91 Million books ([13:19])

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’ve all had big dreams. But in a lot of cases, those dreams didn’t pan out the way we envisioned them. Sadly, this causes a lot of people to give up.

Our outcome-oriented society has trained us to expect instant gratification and immediate results. When we don’t get them, we quit. But the real tragedy is that we stop dreaming.

In this episode, I discuss how to regain your big dreams and how to achieve them through a process-oriented approach to life.

Show Highlights Include:

• A counterintuitive method that lets you live out your biggest dreams instead of pushing them aside and giving up ([1:51])
• How one man took the British cycling team to the top by focusing on small improvements ([5:26])
• Why dreaming of massive success is destroying your motivation ([5:42])
• How our outcome-oriented society stops you from achieving your dreams ([6:26])
• The commonly misunderstood lesson hidden in the lives of professional athletes ([7:22])
• What you can learn from how Bill Walsh won his first Super Bowl… 14 years before it was played ([11:01])
• Why you should celebrate when you experience failure ([13:26])

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.

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])

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.

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.

Have you ever found yourself dissatisfied with your life? In a job or relationship that you were just tolerating? It’s possible that you’ve found yourself living out someone else’s design for your life, draining all passion from your soul.

In this episode, Rick is again joined by Dwight Edwards and they discuss how to find your personal passion, as well as how to begin living an epic life, no matter where you’re starting from.

Show Highlights Include:

• How to stop following someone else’s dream and discover your personal passion ([2:25])
• The one impactful question that can change the course of your entire life ([3:03])
• Why practicality assassinates dreams before they can ever come true ([4:11])
• How you’ve unwittingly downgraded your life and how to reverse that trend ([9:24])
• The secret to living an epic life, even if you’re starting from your lowest point ever ([12:31])

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 couldn’t bear to spend one more day doing a job that you hated? Had trouble getting motivated to do the things that you know you need to do?

In this episode, Dr. Rick is joined by Dwight Edwards and they discuss passion, one of the most important elements to living a happy and fulfilled life. Learn what passion really is and how to know when you’ve found yours.

Show Highlights Include:

• The famous story of an epic life that was almost never told ([4:26])
• You (and your children) must read these books to implant greatness in your mind ([7:49])
• The single essential characteristic you need to go from good to great ([8:10])
• The “click of the shotgun” secret for determining your life’s passion ([9:57])

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.