SUMMARYPursue Your Dreams! - Don’t find yourself in a situation later in life disappointed that you didn't chase what you wanted.Don’t Work Too Hard! - When it comes to the end of your life you certainly will not be looking back wishing you had five more minutes to clear out your inbox or finish a project, make time for what matters.Express Your Feelings - Not expressing how you feel can lead you to stay in relationships, business arrangements and situations that you don’t really want to be in.Friends are the Family we Choose -  Stay in touch with friends. Maintain contact with at least one person on a weekly basis.Choose Happiness - You cannot control all events that will occur in your life but you absolutely can choose your reaction to them. FREE EBOOK Free Digital Copy of my best selling book The 3 Alarms: https://www.ericpartaker.com/the3alarms Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/eric 

SUMMARYBelieve in Yourself! -  If you are doubting yourself your motivation will be low. Remind yourself of the times you achieved. Look for people around you who have achieved similar things and remind yourself that if other people can do it ‘I can too!’Zero in on ‘why?’ - Why do you want to reach your goals? If you can understand why, you can ignite the motivation again to continue the journey.Maintain Positivity -  Maximise the fundamentals in life. How is your diet, sleep and exercise? Give Yourself Some Support -  Support yourself through knowledge. Books, courses, articles, whatever you can do to close the gap between what you think you should know and where you currently are. Enlist the support of others, experts or people that accompany you on your journey.Create Clarity -  Clarify exactly what it is you are working on, or your motivation will inevitably suffer.Minimize Distractions -  Remove your phone, close down computer tabs. If you are distracted you are more likely to lose motivation. FREE EBOOK Free Digital Copy of my best selling book The 3 Alarms: https://www.ericpartaker.com/the3alarms Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/eric 

SUMMARYMaximize The Value of Your Work - Remind yourself why it is that you are striving for your goals? Why is it important to you? And what are the benefits that you could be experiencing from doing the work? Maximize Expectancy - Maximize your belief in your ability to achieve what you are working on.Minimize Impulsivity - Minimize the likelihood distractions will occur by optimizing your environment.Minimize Delay - Minimize the amount of time it takes to gain that first taste of success! From your large overall goal create smaller goals to achieve along the way. FREE EBOOK Free Digital Copy of my best selling book The 3 Alarms: https://www.ericpartaker.com/the3alarms Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/eric 

Negativity, it's Holding You Back! -  Learn how to reprogram that negative state of mind. Today, learn five steps to reprogram your mind for positive thinking.Focus on the Story - Reprogramme your mind by writing out your current story. Next, write a new story of how your ideal self would be, how you want to view yourself, and what you would like out of life. Rewrite for 90 days straight to reprogramme your mind.Adopt a Professional Mindset - Let go of the amateur. Professionals know that actions generate feelings, amateurs believe that feelings generate action.Today is Going To Be a Good Day! - Start everyday with this positive frame of mind and you’ll see over time how it reprogrammes your mind.The Dream Team - Three areas of life we seek to do our best in is our health, wealth and relationships. Begin each day thinking about who you are at your best in each of those areas.Wins and Learns - At the end of everyday take 5 minutes to document what went well, your wins, and what you have learned. This creates a sense of gratitude and positivity within.Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/eric

Today we're going to be talking about what makes a great leader, and all of these things are things that you can learn.Number one, the key thing to becoming a great leader is to build what's called vulnerability based trust. People don't like working with someone who never makes a mistake, right?The number two area that great leaders excel in is around decisiveness, so the ability to prioritize speed over precision and decision-making. It's much better to make a decision quickly, even if it's the wrong decision, than to sit there and deliberate in analysis paralysis and never move forward.Number three area that is a hallmark for great leadership is around reliability. Great leaders do what they say they're going to do. If you're not building your personal integrity bank account by doing the things that you say you're going to do, you will not separate yourself from all the want to be great leaders.Number four thing that great leaders do is that they are productive. They take the time to figure out what are the right things that they should be working on.Number five, great leaders rally everyone behind a great vision. What is the vision that you could be using to inspire yourself and others?Number six, great leaders then think about the strategy that's necessary to achieve that vision. How are you going to go about using what's unique about you or your group or whatever to achieve that vision?Number seven is all about execution. We've got a great strategy. We need to execute. We actually need to get this stuff done.Number eight, great leaders remember that they're managing or they're leading a team, not a family. There's a big difference between the two because families strive to stick together no matter what, whereas teams are optimized to win at all times.Great leaders have difficult, tough conversations. They don't shy away from them. They step into them.Number 10, great leaders mind the metrics. They make sure that everyone knows the metrics, the points, the things that are needed to win the game.Number 11, great leaders practice anti-fragility. They recognize that stress actually builds strength. They step into discomfort.Number 12, great leaders make bold moves. When things change, great leaders step into that change. Great leaders don't shy away.Great leadership is not something that can't be learned. It is learnable. It's something I learned.

Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/ericYou have no chance of performing at a high level if you keep doing what you're doing. You have to change your approach. And that is a subject of today. What do high performers do differently?So three things that high performers do differently. They are intentional, they're productive and they're anti-fragile.Being more intentional is essentially respecting that behavior follows identity, and that we can choose our identities, and that we first start our journey of high performance of reaching our fullest potential by choosing who it is that we want to be.The other thing that high performers do with regard to intentionality is that they don't let their feelings get in the way. High performers know that it's having intention about what they want to do, and having that intention drive action, which will generate the feelings they're after.Second thing that high performers do is that they are productive. They have an evening routine to shut down their day.They have a powerful morning routine. When they start out their next day, they don't start it just doing any old thing. They start it working on what was deemed to be most important the day before. Another big productivity driver for high performers is they're very good at single tasking. Instead of jumping around to a myriad of different things, they focus, 30 minutes, 60 minutes at a time. And that leads to an incredibly high output, much, much higher than jumping around from one thing to the next, throughout the day. Last but not least high performers are anti-fragile. They respect that stress builds strength. They step into discomfort rather than shying away from it. And they have an incredible ability to, when they're knocked down, stand quickly back up.

Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/ericWhen someone says that they're a perfectionist, what they're really saying is that they are dominated by fear. They think perfectionism is somehow a good thing, but it actually just means they're afraid.The other thing that they're afraid of is, they're afraid of failing. They're afraid that, "If I put my work out there and if it's not perfect, then I'm going to fail.The act of completing something quicker is actually the best way to perfect it. By getting something out the door and in an imperfect state, you can get feedback on that and you can learn how to improve it.The 80-20 Rule simply states that 20% of the effort will yield 80% of the results. Now what does a perfectionist try to do? They try to put in a hundred percent effort to get a hundred percent of the result.By focusing on, "What's the 20% of effort that I could put in that would still yield 80% of the result," it's a perfect way to train yourself out of your perfectionism.Things don't need to be perfect, they need to be good enough. And often what you think is the necessary standard for good enough, is nowhere near what someone actually needs. They need far less than what you're thinking.Another super powerful technique or tool that you can use to overcome perfectionism, is a simple phrase that I use all the time. And it's just, "I choose to start for just five minutes." It helps you take action.Starting takes just a moment, whereas finishing takes an indefinite amount of time.

Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/ericToday we're talking about how you can tap into the power of personal responsibility so you can take things up a level in your business and life.You can really up your personal responsibility game and change the results in your life by focusing on just three areas, deciding who you want to be in just three areas, your health, your wealth, and your relationships, and bringing some intentionality into those arenas because those are the three areas which demand our greatest responsibility in life.The second thing that you can do which follows on from the first is a concept that I call champion proofs. Each and every day, I pick what's the one thing that I could be doing which, if done, proves that I'm stepping into the champion version of me.Number three thing that I recommend you do to really tap into the power of personal responsibility and get your act together is become a single tasker. The average person is losing 13 weeks a year jumping around from task to task to task rather than staying with things long enough to actually get them done.Number four thing that you can do to get your act together is turn pro. Make the decision to show up as a professional, not an amateur. An amateur thinks that feeling generates action. Professional flips that around. They know that action generates feeling.Number five, the game isn’t about avoiding the knockdowns. The game is how quickly you can stand back up. If you really want to get your act together, stop worrying about the knockdowns.

Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/ericFear is something that grips us all. It's something that holds us all back.If you've learned to be in a fearful state, you can unlearn that state. You can get yourself into a position to get around those fears and you know how to handle them so that they're not handling you.And today that's what we're going to be talking about. So five things that can help you overcome any fears that you have.The number one thing that you can do to help overcome fear begins in the mind. It's all about mindset. And specifically about you becoming comfortable stepping outside of your comfort zone.The number two thing that you can do to help overcome fear is to think about similar experiences. If you can remember back to similar experiences, this helps you overcome fear by giving you evidence that you're capable of doing something like this.Number three: enlist support. Reach out to friends, family, colleagues, anybody that you can ask for advice who's been through the experience that perhaps you're afraid of.The number four thing that you can do to help overcome fear is publicly commit. Once you make a commitment to others, then it propels you, and necessity forces you to move forward, to step into that fear.And the number five way that I've used most often to help me overcome fear is just to get into the habit of taking a bold action. On a daily basis, ask yourself, "What's one bold action that I can take today? Because if you get into that habit, that rhythm of taking bold action every single day, you will become more courageous and less fearful.

Please rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/ericWhether you achieve all the things that you want to achieve in your life, or whether you don't will be strongly linked to your ability to stick to the habits that you know are doing you well.This is about how you can introduce what are called triggers to increase your ability to stick to your habits.All habits break down into a 3 part habit loop. And it basically starts with a trigger or you think of this as like the event that happens right before the behavior or the habit. So you have something that triggers a habit and then you perform whatever that behavior is. And then there's an aspect of it called the reward, which is why you do the habit because you're seeking some kind of reward.So with this in mind, we can design triggers. We can design events right before the habit that we'd like to be doing. We can design events, things that will happen, such that they remind us to do this new habit.