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Stress decreases willpower, self control and weakens your resistance to old bad habits. Stress comes primarily from four places: WorkFamilyFinancesHealth The key to not giving into the caustic effects of…

Most people work for someone or some organization. From the perspective of the employer, their employees represent an investment – an asset of the company. From the perspective of an employee,…

The average Red Oak tree takes 15-20 years to produce its first acorn. But it will produce acorns for up to 350 years, before it dies. Conversely, a Cherry tree takes…

Laughter is the best medicine. According to many studies, laughter has the following health benefits: Reduces blood pressure. Strengthens your immune system. Improves your breathing. Increases your energy. When life…

Exercise increases your IQ! Here’s how: Blood has two primary functions: To carry nutrients (glucose and oxygen) to every cell in the body and To carry waste (free radicals) out…

Leverage means using all of your assets, knowledge, skills, time and relationships to get what you want or need in life. As an example, successful people reach out to their…

I recently read about a study conducted by Yale professor Bernie Siegel that opened my eyes. Prof. Siegel studied people who had multiple personalities. Amazingly, when one personality took over,…

The key to transforming your life is taking small steps. Those small steps get the ball rolling. Eventually, those consistent small steps, over many years, compound into massive change. In…

The media loves to highlight individuals who they see as an overnight success: Justin Bieber’s viral You Tube videos helped him get a record deal and instant fame. Joe Namath…

Famed Evolutionary Scientist, Charles Darwin, was born into a wealthy family. The luxury of his family’s wealth gave him much free time. He squandered that time drinking, gambling, hunting and…

Sixteenth century astronomer Galileo Galilei stood on the shoulders of 15th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus when he proved through his own experiments that Copernicus’ sun centered theory was correct. Sir…

I have a business client who is on the path to success. I know this because he has many of the success traits and Rich Habits that I found in…

The anticipation of getting something you want elevates your dopamine levels (happiness neurotransmitter) every time you think about that thing you want. This is why the pursuit of success, the…

Whether or not we’re aware of it, there are two wars raging inside each one of us: Taking Action vs. Procrastinating. When we take action on our dreams and goals…

When we are exposed to some outside threat, we experience stress. Our fight or flight impulse takes over. Our new brain (neocortex, also known as conscious mind) shuts down and…

Creativity and insight are neurological cousins. Inspiration and passion drives creativity whereas insight is typically driven by sweat of the brow analytical thinking related to a single specific problem you…

In my Rich Habits Study, I interviewed 233 rich people and 128 poor people. One of the questions I asked was, “Do you need to be lucky to be rich?”…

Imagine you’re part of a group of cave men, walking through the tall grass in the Savanna on the hunt for your next meal. Suddenly, a member of your group…

Most people are unsuccessful. They do not read or self-educate themselves. They prefer to spend time on social media, binging on streaming movies, watching sporting activities, engaging in drinking and/or…

Human beings are hard-wired for instant gratification. It’s a fossil of evolution which served us very well in the early days of humanity, where each day was a fight just…

In the mid-1970’s a team of behavioral scientists, psychologists, health professionals and many other experts from different disciplines embarked on a comprehensive and ambitious study of over 1,000 children aged…

We literally have two brains: The Conscious and The Subconscious. The Conscious Mind The conscious mind is located in the brain’s topmost layers. It includes the neocortex and the lobes.…

Very few pursue their dreams, goals, life purpose or success. Such pursuits require changes that have a way of shaking up our lives. These changes affect those closest to us…

If you look around you will see there are only a handful of self-made millionaires for every hundred people. And those self-made millionaires seem to be in perpetual motion. They…

I am very fortunate. I had 306 success mentors – the 177 self-made millionaires plus the 233 poor individuals I interviewed for my Rich Habits Study plus JC Jobs. The…

Cameron Huddleston Tue, 6 April 2021, 8:00 am·9-min read Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com “When most think of wealth, they think about money,” said Tom Corley, author of “Rich Habits” and “Change…

In my Rich Habits Study, there were four types of self-made millionaires: Saver-Investors, Big Company Climbers, Virtuosos & Dreamer-Entrepreneurs. The Dreamer-Entrepreneurs were by far the wealthiest, at an average net…

Success is a process that requires consistency. You must do certain, specific things every day in order to realize success tomorrow. These consistent daily activities are also known as habits.…

Fifty-one percent of the self-made millionaires in my Rich Habits Study were lucky. This 51% were made up primarily of Dreamer-Entrepreneurs, one of the four types of self-made millionaires, I…

It’s not easy changing habits. It takes time, persistence and awareness. But there is a shortcut to habit change that virtually guarantees your new good habits will stick. It’s called…

A paper published by the University of Cologne in Germany in the May 2015 Journal of Personality and Psychology, in which more than 68,000 Americans and Europeans were studied, found…

Unchecked negative emotions can alter or destroy relationships forever. The most destructive and costly type of negative emotion is anger. Allowing your anger to erupt hurts those closest to you…

In a paper published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience by researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in which the brains of 46 teenagers were scanned, they…

Direct Link to CNBC Article Here: ‘Rich Habits’ author: There is no one right way to build wealth — and that’s great news https://cnb.cx/2PnbRM5 Over the course of five years,…

For years we’ve been advised that the key to weight loss is to burn more calories than we consume. And many accepted this advice, put on their running shoes, or…

Every person has limitless potential to do and be something great. It does not matter where you start out in life – you can start out homeless and poor and…

By the time the world woke up to the frightening emergence of the Nazi regime, Group-Think had already infected most of Germany. Somehow, someway, most of the non-Jews in Germany…

Have you ever run into an optimist? Most who do walk away upbeat, energized and optimistic – you feel better, just being in the presence of an optimist. Now contrast…

It’s too bad, in my opinion, that the word faith has been co-opted by religious groups. Belief in God is a very personal thing, but not everyone believes in God.…

We really have two brains – the New Brain (neocortex) and the Old Brain (Brain Stem and Limbic System). The New Brain has only been around for a few hundred…

This was pretty cool and a nice surprise. ABC News’ Good Things Utah devoted a segment to my Rich Habits Research. Watch and listen here: https://www.abc4.com/gtu/what-people-at-the-end-of-their-lives-regret-the-most/

In 1938 Harvard University embarked on what would become the longest study of adult development. The study involved 724 men who were split into two groups: 268 sophomore students from…

If I were to boil success down to just two success traits they would be Grit and Growth. Those with Grit never quit on their dreams and their goals. No…

Even before I finished my analysis of the data I gathered in my five-year Rich Habits Study, I began sharing with others what I considered revolutionary, life changing information. At first,…

Curiosity was a common Rich Habit among the self-made millionaires in my study. The desire to learn, causes growth, and growth is a prerequisite for success, especially for Big Company…

In my five year Rich Habits Study, I got to know my millionaires very well. They had a lot in common. Below is a snapshot of a typical millionaire from…

When I was in my early 20’s, my friends and I started going to a very popular East Side dance club in NYC on Friday nights, called The Juke Box.…

If you were being honest with yourself, how much of your workday are you actually working hard? How much of your day are you operating at maximum potential? If you…

The desire to be somebody of significance, drives many self-made millionaires, other than the Saver-Investor millionaires. Big Company Climbers are driven to rise up the ladder within their companies into…

According to A well-known study, conducted in 2013 by PEW Charitable Trusts, 70% of those born and raised in poverty, remain poor as adults. And this “cycle of poverty” continues,…