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A Challenge to Make Your Dreams Become a Reality

Filed Under: Mindset on December 21, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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Today, I have a challenge for you. What's one thing you've always wanted to do, that you've never done? This can be anything. Travel somewhere?Jump out of a plane?Learn a skill?Start a website? Picture yourself doing it. What does it feel like? Are you smiling? Are you happy? Are you absolutely thrilled? Of course you are. Your dream is now a reality. Whatever it is, there is no reason you can't do it. You have this desire for a reason, so why not make it happen? Not enough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mindset on December 21, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

Less Turkey. More Gratitude. How Practicing Daily Gratitude Can Dramatically Change Your Thinking

Filed Under: Mindset on November 25, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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As I write this, it's Thanksgiving week in the U.S. This is a day when Americans are supposed to pause, reflect, and express gratitude for the positive things in our lives. Brief history lesson - This holiday evolved from the "thanks giving" prayers of the explorers who originally discovered and colonized early America. The difference between then and now is that our ancestors gave thanks for literally DAYS during this period (yes, I did pay attention during a small minority of history … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mindset on November 25, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

Try This Goal Setting Hack to Bring You Closer to Your Goals

Filed Under: Productivity on November 15, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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Today I want to share with you one really simple, but also super effective goal setting hack to help you achieve your goals. This isn't something you're going to read about in a lot of places, because frankly, it goes a little deeper than most of the goal setting knowledge you're going to read out there. Achievements are hard, especially those that may be long-term and drawn out like most of our yearly goals are. There's a pretty common saying that one of my mentors, Brendon Burchard, says … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity on November 15, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

What It Means to Behave Successfully

Filed Under: Mindset on April 28, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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You may have noticed a few recent changes to Academy Success. A cleaner look with easier sharing options, a sharper font that is easier on the eyes, and last but not least,  a very subtle yet very powerful new tagline - just underneath the main logo. "Behave Successfully" A couple of years ago when I started Academy Success, I set out to make a difference in the lives of as many people as I could. It's been fun and rewarding so far and I'm grateful to have as many readers as I do, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mindset on April 28, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

How to Eliminate All of Your Excuses… Forever

Filed Under: Mindset on March 11, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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Whatever you think is holding you back, there is someone who has done what you want to do with less resources and more obstacles. - Tim Ferriss What if you could eliminate all of your excuses that are holding you back from accomplishing your goals - for good? This doesn't require a ton of work. In fact, it requires very little work at all. As I channel my inner Derek Halpern, so check it... What eliminating your excuses really comes down to is morphing your mindset towards what you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mindset on March 11, 2014. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

[Video] 4 Inner Demons You Need to Conquer, And Exactly How to Do It

Filed Under: Mindset, Video on December 8, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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Believe it or not, there was a point in my life where there was no way in hell I would have even thought about publishing online. I thought to myself, who would want to listen to what I have to say? What if people don't like me, what if they make fun of me? Those being among other self-defeating thoughts. And at the time, I seriously believed it. Today I look back at that person and can't even believe it was me. And according to my survey results, I know for a fact that a lot of you out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mindset, Video on December 8, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

Accomplishing Short Term Goals, Try This Unconventional Approach

Filed Under: Mindset, Video on August 4, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


Quite a few people struggle with leaving things unfinished. In fact, I used to struggle with this very thing myself. There's a lot of psychology and brain chemistry at play when it comes to motivation, and the reasons humans behave in certain ways. This has a huge effect with the conventional advice that most big box experts give out to people to help them accomplish their goals. They'll tell you to tell as many people as possible, get buy-in, get your idea out into the world. But that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mindset, Video on August 4, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

[VIDEO] The Single Best Way to Free Up Time For Personal Goals

Filed Under: Productivity, Video on June 23, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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The single largest barrier everyone has to accomplishing personal goals is being able to free up time in order to work on them. Sure, some people have more time than others, but almost none of us take the most advantage of the blocks of "free time" we have in our lives as well as we should. I know dozens of people personally who have started with the technique I am about to teach you, have been able to "free up time" as they started to change their routines, and have completely transformed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity, Video on June 23, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

Life Lessons Learned While Dangling From a 15 Foot Rope

Filed Under: Health & Fitness, Mindset on June 6, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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Having graduated with an MBA and having done fairly well for myself in life so far... it's not often I feel like a total idiot, but a couple of days ago... it happened. There I was in CrossFit class, in an incredibly equipped industrial style gym with about 15 people in it... all of whom were ready to do an ass-kicker of a workout. We had to lift around our body weight up to our face (depending on skill level), climb to the top of a 15 foot rope, and sprint a few hundred meters. But not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health & Fitness, Mindset on June 6, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

Academy Success May Guest Post Roundup

Filed Under: Announcements on June 2, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.


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If you're a frequent reader of Academy Success, you know I usually post about once a week on this site for you. However, what you may not know is I also write at around the same frequency throughout many other self-improvement sites across the web. One of the reasons I started Academy Success is because I wanted to help as many people as I could, and while I certainly save most of my best stuff for you loyal readers, you can understand I have to get out and about among the rest of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Announcements on June 2, 2013. Grab our free financial automation checklists.

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