Would you like to know how to design your own destiny? By the end of today's episode, you'll know exactly how to design your own destiny and take your life to an entirely new level.KEY POINTSDo You Have a Vision! - If you don't have a vision, you won't know where you're headed, you’ll drift through life.Why Is Your Vision Important To You? -  What is the deeply motivating reason that's going to drive you towards fulfilling your destiny?Focus on what’s important! - What are the outputs that matter most for the future you’re trying to create? Schedule your time, show up to appointments and single task. Focus on whatever it is that you intended at that moment.Behaviour Follows Identity - Decide who it is that you want to be. Start acting how that person would. Expect the Unexpected - By expecting the unexpected you’ll be stronger and a lot more capable of staying on the path to achieving and designing your own destiny. Upgrade Your Network - Are you spending time with the people who help me achieve my destiny or are they holding you back?Design Your Learning - Find out what it is you need to be learning to reach your goals, and learn it!Visualize Your Dreams - Everyday for 5 minutes visualize your dreams and achieve your goals.FREE EBOOKFree Digital Copy of my best selling book The 3 Alarms:https://www.ericpartaker.com/the3alarmsPlease rate and review my podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/eric

SUMMARYFace Your Fears - A lot of people think that they need to be more confident in order to step into their fears, but they've got it wrong. The key skill to learn is that we step into our fears in order to build confidence.Practice Curious Listening - Asking curiosity-based questions, will not only deepen your connection with a person, but also teach you things that you never would have perhaps known before. This can be important for your own development as well.Practice Single Tasking - Did you know that the average person loses 13 weeks a year, an entire calendar quarter, because they are not working on one thing at a time? Eliminate your distractions!80/20 Focus - 80/20 focus is simply recognizing that things are not all created equal. What are the 20% of the things that you can be focusing on for 80% of the benefit?Get Some Sleep - A lot of people are not getting the recommended eight hours of sleep. It impacts their productivity. It impacts their ability to achieve their goal. Ultimately it impacts their ability to get to where they want to in life.Pause! - When something happens that triggers the worst in you, do not respond right away. Pause between whatever is triggering you and responding so that you can choose the best response, the response that's congruent with who you are at your best.Step into Difficult Conversations - It's not confidence that we need to have a difficult conversation. It's stepping into the difficult conversation that will build the confidence we seek.Create Consistency - Working constantly at an 80% level is better than on occasion 100%, and then 60% or 50%. Find an Expert - There are experts out there to help you in your quest to achieve whatever it is that you want. If you can develop the comfort to get out there and reach and connect to them, you can acquire the expertise that you need.Manage your time well! 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 

SUMMARYListen With Curiosity - People want to feel that they’re being listened to. It commands respect from the others because you suddenly are and appear more engaged. Do What You Say! - You need to be reliable. If you're not reliable, people will not respect you.Say How You Feel - If you go about a conversation or a relationship and you're not revealing your true feelings, but then those feelings become revealed later through other means people tend to not respect you.Treat People Fairly and Respectfully - They need to feel that justice is being made available for everyone in the relationship. Offer to Help Others Achieve Their Goals - If you do that, people will immediately feel a greater bond to you and increase the likelihood of them wanting to work with you.Look After the Human Side of Someone and Not Just the Work Side -  Remind yourself that they're not just there to work or to collaborate with you.Demonstrate your Vulnerability - When you admit to others that you've made a mistake, it makes you more approachable, it makes you more accessible and it makes it more likely that someone is going to respect you because you're like them in that situation.Deliver your Best - If you're delivering your best and people can feel that, they are more likely to respect you. Giving your best commands respect from anyone around.Demonstrate That You are Constantly Seeking to Improve - Asking for feedback, demonstrating that you're looking to continuously improve immediately commands respect from others. 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 

SUMMARYIdentity Creates Behaviour - It's not the other way around. Choose a superhero version of yourself, give that a name and see how your behavior starts to follow suit and match who you're striving to be.Set Magnetic Goals - Goals that pull us into action. Goals that make us want to be productive. Setting massive goals makes them magnetic.Focus on What Matters Most - Focus on the outputs that matter most. What is going to create the most amount of positive movement?Determine What You Need to Learn, and From Whom - When you do something you haven't done before, it requires you to learn something new. 100% of the knowledge that you need to achieve your goals already exists so go out there and learn it!Schedule time to work on the things that matter most. 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 

SUMMARYIPA stands for Identity, Productivity and Antifragility. Mastering IPA is the number one thing you need to do to be more successful in life.I = Identity -  Start with identity. Behavior follows who you think you are. You cannot  become a better version of yourself if you continue being the person you've always been.P = Productivity -  You must optimize yourself for action. You must have 80/20 focus. What’s the 20% of things that you could do for 80% of the results?A = Antifragility - Reframe stress; so that the more stress, hardship or difficulty you experience, the stronger you become. Stress Can Be Helpful - It is not something that you should seek to run away from, stress is positive, if viewed from the correct point of view. 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 

SUMMARYWhen To Follow Your Gut - The advice, "follow your gut," can be very dangerous. Make sure that you are aware of when to follow your gut instinct and when you shouldn't.When to Use Intuition - One of the best places to use your intuition is after you've whittled down your options.Trust Your Intuition Around People - Very often your intuitive feelings around people and trust, are pointing to something very important. Think twice about ignoring that.Trust Your Intuition Around Safety - Trust your intuition when you're feeling issues about your physical safety.Do Something About Your Fear - When fear is masquerading as our gut instinct, it's a really good signal to ask yourself, ‘How could I get some support?’Stop! - Your intuition is there to help you, but you shouldn't always follow it! 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 

SUMMARYCreate Clarity - An anxious mind is a clouded mind. The first way to create clarity is to develop a meditation practice.Develop a Simple Planning Routine - Anxiety reduces when you're not worried about what you need to do. Plan and schedule everything into your life. Get Some Sleep! - An anxious mind is a tired mind. Focus on your energy and recovery. If you're not getting enough sleep, you will be more prone to anxiety.Start Your Day With Some Exercise - An energized mind is going to be less anxious.Take a Break - Don't work endlessly with no break at all. Anxiety will reduce if you're taking plenty of breaks throughout the day.Express Your Ambitions To Others - An anxious mind is a repressed mind. When you keep feelings in, it contributes to your anxiety.What Are You Afraid Of? - Fears will create anxiety. The act of stepping into the fears will build your confidence. 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 

SUMMARY Trust Is The Foundation Of Any Relationship - If you do not have trust in a relationship at work or at home, there is no foundation. You must have a solid foundation to build anything of value upon it. Do You Have Respect? - If you don't have respect from the person that you are in a relationship with, professionally or personally, that's not a relationship.Do They Have Empathy? - Empathy is simply the ability for someone to put themselves in your shoes so they can feel what you're feeling. If you're in a relationship with someone who doesn't feel empathy, the first step is to make them aware of that.Is Your Relationship Allowing You to Grow?- Is the person that you're in a relationship with leading to your growth?Is Your Relationship Fun? - Who wants to be robotic, mechanical, dry, dull, boring, I can't have a laugh, relationship? Nobody. We all want to have fun.Are you Happy? - Does your relationship make you happy? Does it make you feel good? Does it put a smile on your heart? 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 

SUMMARYTake 100% Ownership - It's down to you. Nobody else is going to do it for you. Take ownership for your own successes and failures. If your dreams succeed great, if not what is it that you did or didn't do that led to that?Up Your Game! - Pause for a moment and ask yourself, "Where do I need to be upping my game?" Are there skills you could be developing? Or people you should be surrounding yourself with to learn from?Schedule Your Dreams Into Your Calendar - Have you ever thought about scheduling your dreams into your calendar? What gets scheduled gets done, and that includes your dreams as well.Create Some Outside Pressure - That could come in the form of an accountability partner such as a coach or friend. Somebody who is going to recognise whether you are reaching your targets. 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 

SUMMARYDecide Who It Is That You Want To Be - You get to decide who you want to be right now.Prove Yourself - Decide what's the one thing that you could do each day that will evidence your success?Create Powerful Routines - If your day is feeling like it's out of control, then it's probably because you don't have concrete, reliable structures. Create a structured routine.Goals Give Us Meaning! -  If you don't know what you're shooting for, you're going to be feeling that you're flying blind. Set goals, and make sure they inspire you.Apply the 80/20 rule - When you are overwhelmed trying to achieve everything apply the 80/20 rule. Work out what is 20% of the work that you do that can create 80% of the result.Reframe stress - Stress is not bad. It's our view of stress, which hurts you, which makes you feel not in control.Develop a “Bring It On” Mentality - Have the mentality that no matter what the challenge is that you can step into it.Measure What Matters - Measure the hours/minutes you are spending on your activities to reach your goals. If you are not measuring, they will tend to not get done. What gets measured gets done!Level up your Team - You could be hanging out with the wrong people or not have the right members of the team working with you, or not have the right people on the team.Practice Gratitude - When you are not thankful on a regular basis for all the good things that are happening in your life, then you will have a tendency to focus on what isn't happening, or going your 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