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The Walden Effect

As your incomes rises, so too do your expenses. You buy a bigger home, nicer cars, better clothes, go on more expensive vacations and frequent restaurants more often. When your…

Jerry Seinfeld’s Calendar Strategy for Forging New Daily Habits

Forging new habits is hard. Depending on the habit you are trying to create, it can take anywhere from 18 days to 254 days to form the habit, with the…

Likeability is Critical to Success

Ninety-five percent of the rich in my Rich Habits Study indicated that being liked was critical to their success. Conversely, only 9% of the poor felt being liked was important to…

The Latest Science on Weight Loss is Game Changing

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…

How to Turn on the Happiness Gene

According to a study published by the Journal of Happiness, associating with other happy people turns on a gene that increases happiness levels. The gene is called “A allele”. A…

How to Train Your Brain to Abandon Bad Habits

It is virtually impossible for most individuals to immediately abandon a bad habit. Going cold turkey, requires enormous willpower. And, unfortunately, willpower is a very limited resource. Willpower appropriates too…

Generosity Boosts Happiness

What’s happiness? I don’t think happiness is any one unique feeling. Joy is happiness. Laughter is happiness. Being around your loved ones is happiness. Feeling content, for whatever reason, is…

Prosperity Increases Longevity

In a recent report from the Brookings Institute, they found that rich people live longer than poor people. Rich men live 12 years longer than poor men and rich women…

Why Self-Made Millionaires Exercise Aerobically

It took about a year for me to realize that the rich vs. poor programming I had received as a child was the opposite of reality. The 233 rich people…

Wake Up and Stop Acting Like a Zombie

What makes a zombie a zombie? Zombies have no self-awareness. They are driven only by unconscious, instinctual behavior. They are on autopilot, oblivious to their surroundings. They are non-thinking beings,…