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We do little things to not feel guilty putting off the big ones

By Rusty Lindquist 4 Comments
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Over half of the US population uses supplements. Every year that number increases. Interestingly, there’s no correlation of improvement to public health. (Read about the study in Psychological Science here). Why is that? Is it that supplements don’t work? No. Looking deeper, what researchers found is that when someone takes a supplement, say a multi-vitimin, [...]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: goals, hard work, Procrastination, Tasks, work

Love and Purpose – the great change enablers

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Austin, the team's rallying point, imbued our efforts with purpose born of love and loyalty.

There are lots of reasons why you might seek change.  Often those reasons are centered around yourself.  Your personal betterment. These are noble causes.  You are infinitely capable, after all, and you deserve the very best, those rewards earned through the persistent pursuit of positive change. But there is yet a higher cause.  Something even [...]

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Filed Under: Be Motivated and Inspired, Purpose Tagged With: change, Change Effort, hard work, Love, Loyalty, Meaning, perseverance, Purpose

Sleep deprivation – like being legally drunk

By Rusty Lindquist 7 Comments
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So often, the difficulties we face in trying to embrace and pursue meaningful change in our lives, or simply to accomplish something meaningful, can be tracked back to one of the most simplest problems there is to solve. The lack of sleep. It’s a fact, sleep deprivation kills performance.  Not only that, but lack of [...]

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Filed Under: All about change, Creativity, Sleep and Restoration, Understand Your Brain Tagged With: Cognition, cognitive psychology, Creativity, Neurobiology, neurology, Productivity, Restoration, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Understand Your Brain

Life is like a garden

By Rusty Lindquist 1 Comment
Life is like a garden, it's yours to change

Imagine you’ve been given a garden. It’s you’re garden, and your responsible for its care.  You decide what grows in it.  You decide what it looks like.  And you get to partake of the fruit that comes from it. Like any garden, it’s gonna be prone to sprout weeds.  Undesirable seeds will occasionally be blown [...]

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Filed Under: All about change, Be Motivated and Inspired, Life, Take Control of Your Life Tagged With: change, control

Don’t click this video on Facebook!

By Rusty Lindquist 2 Comments
This page is a Facebook spoof, meant to hack your Facebook Account

There’s a new Facebook hack that is just now flying through Facebook and it’s very dangerous.  Please share this post with your friends so their accounts are not compromised, or if you’ve seen this video from a friend, point them here so they know what to do about it. How does it work? You’ll receive [...]

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Ted Williams: Don’t judge a book by its cover

By Rusty Lindquist 7 Comments
Ted Williams from Ohio, the inspirational story of the man with the golden voice

Okay, so if you haven’t yet heard of Ted Williams, you need to. It’s a great story. At the beginning of this week Ted Williams was homeless. He was begging on the streets, panhandling at intersections. Early this week he stood by the side of Interstate 71 in Columbus Ohio holding a sign that said [...]

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Filed Under: Be Motivated and Inspired, Videos Tagged With: inspirational stories, Recovery, Video

The touching story behind Rudolf, the reindeer

By Rusty Lindquist 6 Comments
Robert May and his creation, rudolf the red-nosed reindeer

Bob May had always been different.  Small, weak, and slight as a child, he was regularly ridiculed, bullied, and made fun of.  He spent his whole childhood like that. Eventually, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and married the love of his life, Evelyn.  Together they had a beautiful daughter named Barbara. Bob became [...]

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Filed Under: Be Motivated and Inspired, Life Tagged With: belief, Christmas, Inner Value, Inpsiration

Want to kill something? Stop feeding it.

By Rusty Lindquist 2 Comments
Venus Fly Trap - if you stop feeding something it will die, success requires investment

This morning I came out to my office to work, and as I was walking over to my desk I looked up and saw my plant. It’s a Venus Fly Trap. I found it the other day on sale at a local store and bought it immediately. I bought it because it was a symbol [...]

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Filed Under: Business and Employment, Consumption, Family Tagged With: all of a sudden syndrome, attention, consumption, investment, patience

The greatest gift you can give

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Today I went inside for a little break to see what everyone was up to. I walked inside and found my eldest son (13), busily typing away on the macbook pro in the living room. I wondered what he was so intent on. I let him be and decided to chase a few little ones, [...]

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I am the master of my fate – Invictus

By Rusty Lindquist 2 Comments
Nelson Mandela, inspired by Invictus, learned self mastery in overcoming adversity

William Earnest Henley – the story The British boyWilliam Ernest Henley contracted tuberculosis of the bone when he was just 12 years old.  He suffered from the disease until he was 25.  Bythen it had progressed all the way to his foot.  13 years. The doctors then told him that they would have to remove [...]

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Filed Under: Adversity, Be Motivated and Inspired, Failure, Fear Tagged With: Adversity
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