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Sharpen the Saw (Power Hour)

An hour a day could change your life.

What if you took just one hour of your day, a mere 60 minutes and transformed it from an hour of sleep into an hour of POWER? What if during that early morning hour you focused on what Stephen Covey calls “Sharpening the Saw” (His 7th Habit). A lot of people don’t understand the analogy….but it’s really quite simple. A woodcutter who continues to saw and saw and saw without taking the time to sharpen the saw actually becomes less and less productive because of a dull blade. You might be thinking….I’m not a wood cutter, so how does this relate to me?

Power of the Word!

In researching the Universal Laws and Principles that work in conjunction with Ideal LifeVision, I was most intrigued by the Power of the Word. Of course I knew that words had power, which varied according to the particular word. But what makes some words more powerful than others? I found the answer to be that [...]

Habits

I love how Steve Pavlina says that “habits are memorized solutions”. Eating, typing, reading and driving a car are all memorized solutions. So….habits are really just how your brain approaches time management. Your mind has better things to do than solve the same problems over and over, so it delegates problems to your subconscious mind [...]

Surround Yourself with Successful People

I was just reading an interesting chapter out of Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles”. It started out with this quote by Jim Rohn “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” I know that a guy named Tim Ferriss took that quote to heart at the tender age of [...]