I want to revisit a story I told a while back on my podcast, Master Your Mission. It’s about James Dyson, the founder and CEO of Dyson the vacuum cleaner company. 

Dyson failed, repeatedly, to build the vacuum cleaner that he dreamed of building and putting on the market—his signature G-Force vacuum cleaner. In fact, he failed 5,126 times. 

It was on the 5,127th time that he succeeded at building it. Even after he successfully created his prototype, he was rejected by every manufacturer and distributor in the UK, because they didn’t like his bagless design. 

It took him 15 years and almost his entire savings to develop his innovative vacuum cleaner, which is the best selling vacuum cleaner in the US— eventually making him a billionaire. Dyson said that each of the 5,126 failures taught him something new that led to his eventual success.

Now, James Dyson was way more committed to his dream than most of us will ever be. I’d argue...

I’ve been talking about goals all week, and I’ve been encouraging you to join my 66 Days of Bold Action Challenge—where you’ll take action every day for 66 days toward a goal you have. Whether you join the Challenge or not, working toward your goals is an important part of your personal happiness and growth in life.

Since I’ve already done this Challenge once, myself, I know that there will be ups and downs in those 66 days. There will be days you want to quit. There will be days where you just don’t feel like putting forth any effort. There will be days where you feel like you just aren’t making progress. But you have to stay the course. 

When you don’t have the tools already in place to help you through those rough patches, you may very well give up. That’s why it’s important to have a support system and to be prepared to do the mental work that it will take to get through bad days. You have to actively...

In the 66 Days of Bold Action episode of my podcast, Master Your Mission, I talked about my experience of taking one bold action per day for 66 days. In that episode, I talk about how doing that affected me and changed me for the better. If you haven’t heard it yet, go check it out.

I also mentioned, in that episode, that I’m ready to do it again. I’m ready to take one bold action per day for 66 days to get me out of my comfort zone and closer to achieving a goal, so I asked for your help.

I wanted you to help me choose what my bold action would be, and I gave you three options to choose from. 

A) Wake up every morning at 4 am.

B) Go Live every day on social media.

C) Introduce myself to someone new every day.

The overwhelming winner, was—of course—C) Introduce myself to someone new every day. 

So during my 66 Days of Bold Action Challenge, that starts July 15th, I’ll be going up to some random person every day for 66 days to...

Most of the time when people hear the word “habit”, they think of something bad, but habits can be good, bad, and anywhere in between. Believe it or not, we each have an endless number of habits that we perform daily without even realizing we’re doing it. 

Have you ever thought about how many habits do you have? That’s probably a really hard question to answer because it’s likely that you have hundreds—maybe even thousands.

Think about it. From the time you wake up in the morning until the time you go to bed, you repeat routine after routine after routine. For instance, the time you wake up every morning may be a habit. Listening to music as you get dressed may be a habit. The way you drink your coffee or eat your eggs may be a habit and on and on. Repeating those routines eventually forms habits. 

Studies have shown that it takes, on average, 66 days to form a habit. That means that if you repeat the same routine for 66 days...

When you set goals, you establish direction in your intentions, your actions, and your thoughts. It’s’ like setting a destination in your GPS—you decide where you’re going and you take the necessary steps to get there.

Believe it or not, there’s a science to setting goals effectively and putting yourself in the best possible position to actually achieve those goals. Of course, when we set goals, we want to succeed at accomplishing them and not just set them for the sake of setting them.

So let’s revisit how to effectively set goals, and crush them.

First, a little history. In 1981, a guy named George Doran wrote a paper that appeared in Management Review called, There’s a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management’s goals and objectives. In it, he used...

When I was growing up, most of the houses in my neighborhood had a screen door on the front and back doors. Some of you may know what I’m talking about because you may have grown up with the same type of screen door on your house, and I’m sure there are still homes with those screen doors on them today.

The screen door acted as a barrier between the front door and outside. One of the coolest things about the screen door is that, if you wanted to leave your front door open, you could and the screen door would keep out the things you didn’t want in your house. 

If you wanted your home to catch a nice breeze from outside, you’d leave your door open so wind would blow in and screen doors would keep out the bugs, animals and random people. If you’re from the country, you probably know what I’m talking about. 

The screen door allowed you to see what was on the other side of the screen, but protect your space from any old thing just...

If you have dreams and aspirations of starting a business, there’s no better time than the present. Getting your mindset right, making any necessary preparations, and then taking action on your dream is one of the best decisions you’ll ever make.

In case it isn’t immediately obvious to you, I’m giving you 5 reasons you should start your business now.

1. Starting a business is easier than ever.

Online entrepreneurship just keeps getting easier. As more and more companies introduce free, easy to use, innovative solutions for business owners, they help to make starting and running a business a piece of cake. 

There are plenty of easy to build website platforms, there are plenty of easy to setup ecommerce platforms, and there are plenty of easy to use payment gateways. Everything you need to setup shop and capture payments for your business is readily available online for free or at minimal cost.

2. There are more and more resources available to help you...