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Ultimate Days Masterclass

When You Must Smash It

“I must smash it,” he said.

“Now is when it really counts.”

For months we’ve been working towards these meetings.

Either he smashes it out of the park.

Or missed opportunity.

On top performance, there’s no in between.

No Kindof Top Performance

You either show up your best.

Or less than.

Most days for most people it doesn’t matter.

Unlike a pro athlete, no-one’s judging your every move.

Livelihood doesn’t hinge on top performance.

But some days it does.

Where anything less than your best is an F.

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Why So Serious?

Really, why do we take our lives so seriously?

Of course we’ve got bills to pay.

And kids to raise.

And all those responsibilities at work and in our lives.

But why for so many of us does it all seem so hard?

Why Can’t It Be More Like Play?

You know that quote about all the world’s a stage…

I interpret it to mean it’s a play.

Like a lucid dream we’re directing this life on our own stage.

Here to play.

Believe me, for many years, well, basically, all but this one…

I couldn’t live this way.

I was king of…

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Get More Energy

How many of us would like more energy?

With more energy, what more might be possible for you?

How much more might you get done?

Better might you feel?

What’s more important to living your ultimate life?

Life Is Energy

No energy…

No life.

Yet how we build and consume energy each day is still considered a mystery…

What’s the right amount of sleep?

How do you best fuel and hydrate the body?

What ways do you build and deplete energy?

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Wake Up. Get Up

That’s the second step in the Ultimate Days System.

It’s real leading edge, isn’t it?

Life-saving…

A Game Of Seconds

I mock myself, but I’m also being semi-semi-serious.

Wake up. Get up.

Is a real basic tool for getting your day started right.

Yet many of us also know how hard it can be, right?

Laying there hitting snooze.

Thinking about all the things you’ve got to do today.

Claws reaching for that device we cradle at night.

Those precious few seconds, those few bad moves, our day is already shot.

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Technology Setting Free Boobs

You may have seen an article on the app DeepNude.

Another massive leap in technology the app uses an artificial neural network…

To remove the clothing in any photo of a woman.

Turns Out They All Have Boobs

It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to see women have boobs.

But with enough computing power you can better imagine what they look like.

No longer do we have to so desperately await the next iPhone hack to see celebrity boobs.

Or go to strip clubs.

With 50 bucks and the press of a button, all boobs are free.

Boobs, Promised So Much

Push up bras ruined boobs.

Promising so much, revealing less than.

Technology ruined them more.

Fake boobs.

Sexdoll boobs.

Insta “model” boobs.

Porn infested, boob injected Internet.

Technology promised so much, yet what boobs we’ve become.

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“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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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.

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The Greatest Hidden Secret of The Mind

“Have you read Think and Grow Rich?” he asked.

“That’s a reason I’m still pissed at my parents and teachers,” he said.

Laughing out loud I asked what he meant.

“When I discovered that book,” he told me “it changed my life so much that I was frustrated nobody had told me to read it sooner.”

“It’s not their fault,” I responded to this fellow I had met at a book signing, “the secret of the mind is hidden from most of us.”

No-One “Needs” Personal Development

But we all should want it.

I didn’t “need” to read Think and Grow Rich, any self-help books, any blog, or listen to any so-called experts to elevate my life from working in factories to Goldman Sachs.

“Success” was easy for me, merely a matter of working 80+ hour workweeks in high school and university.

I’m blessed with a good memory for ROTE learning and the will to work 7 days a week forever.

But that’s hardly a worthy secret of success.

Sure, this approach got me to Goldman Sachs, yet only a few years later asking myself “What am I doing with my life?” I wanted far better answers.

The paradigms for success that our society promotes—e.g. hard work, sacrifice—are down-right painful and mostly miserable!

When anyone who explores development quickly finds better ways.

The Hidden Power Of The Mind

“Indeed thoughts are things,” is how Napoleon Hill opens his book.

The best-selling self-help book in history with over 100 million copies sold is cited, quoted, and ripped off by many so-called experts.

Although it’s implied in the title, the book isn’t about making money.

But about creating a rich life through unlocking the secret of the mind.

This hidden secret of the mind might be the greatest secret of this game of life…

And those of us who are “pro gamers” spend our lives hunting the keys.

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How Learning To Shoot Like John Wick Transformed These People

Some time ago I decided that if our society wasn’t going to control guns, then I would learn some gun control of my own.

Watching a video of Keanu Reeves shooting 3 gun for his role in John Wick, I thought to myself, that’s exactly how I want to shoot.

So I sought out trainers—two Navy SEALs—and every month or so I run around the desert training to shoot like John Wick.

Now, I won’t pretend that I’m doing this because I ever expect to be in a gunfight—I do this because for nearly two decades I’ve sought out transformational experiences through learning fun skills.

If you think shooting is bad or immoral or wrong for whatever reason, I understand this stuff isn’t for everyone, even if every night we “entertain” ourselves with murder, and playing with toy guns is for most of our kids…

But if you think it would be an awesome experience learning to shoot with two SEALs over your shoulder, then I bet you’ll think it’s even more awesome what I did next.

I Invited My Friends

I’ve become somewhat open about the stuff I do.

For a decade I was too embarrassed to admit that, um… I’m into Eckhart Tolle, but these days I pretty much just share how it is.

That said, I still felt I was going a bit too far when I wrote about training Remote Viewing with one of the greatest men I know, psychic spy, Joe McMoneagle, but I was surprised by the response—

I want to do that. Let’s plan a group trip!

And that got me thinking…

What would it be like if I put together a group to have some of the experiences that have been so transforming for me?

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The Complete Guide To Winning Daily Routines

You hear a lot about the importance of daily routines, but how many of us actually use them?

I know many professionals trying to compete at the top of their game, and honestly, many teachers who promote the importance of daily routines, who fail to use them. That’s because, as I did for years, we often look at routines completely wrong.

In the same way that many people see exercise as hard and grueling and something to be avoided, we often think of building winning routines as requiring a lot of “hard work.” In fact, the opposite is true.

Top daily routines aren’t about grinding it out against a stop watch, squeezing every ounce of productivity from your day, but getting yourself focused and in the right state of mind to get done those things that truly matter to you.

Like the rituals a top athlete follows ahead of a competition, daily routines are the key to top performance, but they’re also about something far more important—feeling happier and more energized every day.

None of us want to be lazing around in bed tired hitting snooze, do we? Of course not. We all love the idea of bouncing out of bed excited to dive into our day, right?

Similarly, none of us want to be sitting at our desk stressed, worried, whining about all the things we “have to” get done. We want to be clear on what matters, focused on doing it, and feel great looking back at the end of the day having gotten it done.

In this guide I’m sharing with you my ultimate daily routines, a system for your day, broken down into three phases:

  1. Pre-Productive Phase
  2. Productive Phase
  3. Post-Productive Phase

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How To Take Control of Your Thoughts

I spent most of my career stressed and frustrated, thinking ahead to the day when I could quit my job and feel “free.”

Well, when I quit my job, it didn’t work that way.

Jumping from the bonfire into the forest fire, doing what I wanted was way harder than anything I had ever done on Wall Street, and my mind simply wasn’t up for the task.

I wanted to write a book. In my head, it sounded easy, almost a bit indulgent. It turned out to be the hardest thing I’d ever done. 

For days, weeks, months, and eventually years, my stress and frustration went far beyond my ability to manage it.

Those were by far the hardest years of my life. Unwilling to let the overwhelming task beat me, I “forced” my mind to find a way through.

For the first time in my life, I was feeling “unhappy,” “depressed,” “anxious,” “fearful.”

Taking Control Of Your Thoughts

I simply wanted to feel amazing every day.

Already thinking I was an “expert” on getting what you want, I realized that I was missing a big piece of the puzzle.

How do you keep taking powerful actions when your mind isn’t up for the task? How do you train yourself to feel great when those things around you (e.g. your life) keep dragging you back down?

So many of us are victims to our minds. The thoughts in our heads constantly turning, few of us feel how we want to feel each day. Tired, we use our daily upper, caffeine. Stressed, we bring ourselves back down with alcohol. Unable to stop that damn machine at night, we put out the lights with sleeping aids.

This is the best our society teaches us to do, but we can do better.

The fact is, you can take control of your mind and thoughts. It’s not easy. In fact it’s damn hard.

It’s taken me years of daily practice, and I’m still far from perfect at it. But having gone deeper on the mind than is “reasonable” (e.g. hours a day of training) I’ve found enough of the map that I can see the rest of the territory.

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How To Condition Your Mind

If I asked how you train your mind, what would you say?

  • “I read a lot.”
  • “I meditate for an hour every day.”
  • “I journal every night.”

If any of those things are true, then you’re doing a great job of feeding your mind. But what happens when you feed yourself and don’t workout?

You get flabby.

People who hit the gym regularly have bodies that show it. The same is true for people who condition their minds. Conditioning isn’t about feeding your brain new information or how you brainwash yourself or finding productivity “hacks,” it’s about creating a training routine for your mind.

Thinking of your mind as a physical thing, a concept we call the body-mind, is a big shift for some people, but it’s fundamental to conditioning.

People who can’t conceptualize this are always at the mercy of their reptile brain and have little control over their thoughts.

I have a free e-book you can download for Building Your Limitless Mind. (and Audio Masterclass on it here)

But I’ve written this article for conditioning your mind for people who want to quickly take control of their thinking. If you want to be in your mind’s driver seat, the first step is to understand the physical forces that control your mind.

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How The Most Successful CEOs Set Goals

The way we set goals in our society makes achieving those goals all but impossible, but it doesn’t have to be.

If you read a lot of the stuff that’s written on goal-setting, it usually contains the same, wrong-headed advice:

  • Decide where you want to be 10 years from now
  • Break that goal down into monthly goals
  • Work towards those, and eventually, you’ll reach your destination

On paper that looks simple, but implementing it can be anything but. 

Few people really know where they want to be in 10 years with any degree of specificity and even if they think they do, they’re likely to change their goals along the way. Trying to plan out the next 120 months of your life is an impossible feat and the reason most people simply avoid setting goals.

I’ve worked with some of the most successful CEOs and executives in the world and have created a system for setting goals that actually works. You don’t have to know where you’ll be in 10 years, you just have to know one thing:

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