Ultimate Days Masterclass Archives

“Why Don’t I Feel I’ve Made It?”

I see it time and time again.

No matter what success we achieve it’s hard to feel like we’ve made it.

There’s Always Something

We are yet to do.

Or make happen.

A problem that first needs to be resolved.

We might be like Atlas having hoisted the world on our shoulders.

But maybe we shrugged a little on the way up.

Still not good enough.

When I Get Rid Of The Shrug…

Then I’ll be happy.

When we’re no longer bothered by this.

Worried about that.

Concerned for what else might happen.

There’s too often something that stands in our way.

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Another Glorious Fakebook Birthday

My Fakebook birthday is always a nice surprise.

It’s like some of us men on our anniversary.

We completely forget until we wake up to the well in that case less pleasant surprise.

Just Like Any Other Day

I’m getting on with my day.

Making it ultimate.

And then it starts…

With a text message, “Happy birthday!”

Then I remember, ha, of course it’s my Fakebook birthday.

I punch the air.

Celebrate

After all these years you’d think I might remember my Fakebook birthday.

Maybe even do something about it, like change it.

But I let it go on.

As I wrote about on my last Fakebook birthday I gave up telling people, “No it’s just my Fakebook birthday.”

Birthday wishes bring so much joy to people.

And of course I love people celebrating every day.

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This Dying Hollywood Titan Tells You To Live Now

You spend your life driving success.

Are a massive winner in Hollywood.

Live in a 13,000 square foot mansion in Bel Air.

You end up living your final days forgetting your life in a 500 square foot bedroom in a nursing home.

Terry Semel’s ending might not be yours or mine, but we can be sure…

We’re Driving To A Dead End

No matter how you exit this world, assume it will be a worse day than this one.

If you go fast, well, you’ll never know when that is.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

And if you go slow, no matter how you exit, your body and mind likely go first.

You can’t live your life like you’ll get hit by a bus today, but you also can’t live like you won’t.

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“Nothing Else Matters”

Metallica is perhaps an unusual source for personal development…

But I take whatever I get, literally.

I haven’t heard this song for years but when my brain started playing it I listen.

Nothing Else Matters

So close no matter how far,

Couldn’t be much more from the heart,

Forever trust in who we are,

And nothing else matters.

Trust I seek and I find in you,

Every day for us something new,

Open mind for a different view,

And nothing else matters.

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Live. Die. Repeat

Did you see this movie with Tom Cruise?

It’s an interesting take on the alien invasion story.

And a powerful metaphor for living our ultimate days.

Long Story Short

Alien invaders are wiping out the human race.

Tom Cruise, playing a poor soldier, blows himself up, taking an alien down with him.

But then he wakes up again.

It seems blowing himself up with the alien “infected” him with the ability to reset time.

Each time he dies he starts again the same day.

Get It Right This Time

Each time he comes back to life he gets to do it better.

To train more.

Develop more knowledge.

Become more skilled.

To end the alien threat first before it again ends him.

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Yes! Bad Focus Is Our Phones Fault

This silly article blames our phones for ruining our lives.

Obviously, the way many of us use our devices is busted but it’s unfair to blame our poor phones.

They’re just doing their job.

Obviously We Have Focus Problems

Walk down the street it’s obvious.

Watch so-called friends / lovers in a restaurant on their devices, it’s obvious.

Obviously us adults are attached to our phones like a terrorist to an IED.

Kids are obviously raised on the distraction they provide.

Obviously they make our lives better in many ways.

Obviously, they waste our lives in many others.

Less Obvious: Stop Blaming

We blame guns for killing people.

Food for our ever growing waistlines.

Distractions on our lack of focus.

Near everything in the world for our lack of satisfaction.

But the only ones to blame are…

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The Best Mother’s Day Gift…

Is an Ultimate Day.

The point of Ultimate Days is that you can celebrate every day, yet it’s even better on these special days.

Your ultimate day doesn’t have to be your wedding day.

Or the day you won the lottery.

Every day you can party like it’s your birthday when you’re living Ultimate Days.

Make Mother’s Day Ultimate, Again

Mother’s Day is a perfect Ultimate Day.

Being an ultimate mother.

Being ultimate for your mother.

Giving her the gift of being ultimate for her ultimate Mother’s Day.

Here’s the full intro track from the Ultimate Days Masterclass:

Are You Living Ultimate Days?

Yes!

Now, we’re getting crazy… good.

Here we’re not just focused on living your ultimate life but…

Are You Living Your Ultimate Day?

Are you thinking your best?

Feeling your best?

Absorbed in your best actions?

Is today pretty good or…

Are You Living Your Ultimate Day?

If not, when do you plan on living it?

Next year?

When you reach that goal?

Get that thing?

Feel like you’ve finally, what…

Made it?

The only time we ever experience is now.

Period.

Full stop.