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Mornings
Coach Mike

Define Your Daily “Get Up Time”

How do you define the right time for you to get out of bed in the morning? Here’s the formula I use to determine the right time to get up. It works for everyone. To determine your “get up” time, there were two important things you needed to define: Item #1: Define your “morning hard deadline.” This is the time your daytime responsibilities require you to be present and ready to go. I make it a point to be ready and at work by 8:00am, so that is my “morning hard deadline.” If you have to travel to your workplace, you need to factor that in as well. For example, if your morning work commitment starts at 8:00am and it takes you 30 minutes to get to work, your morning

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September 28, 2018 No Comments
Mornings
Coach Mike

Why You Must Master Your Mornings

Here’s the reality: Either you master your mornings or you will live a life of constant struggle and chaos in every area of life. Rising early and at the same time every day is one of the most important keystone habits you can establish for your life.  The great business guru Jim Rohn said: “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn Rising early enables you to establish and maintain a second vital Keystone Habit, a life-enhancing Morning Routine. Why is this important? The reality is that unless you get your key life practices done in the morning, the chances of you doing them later in any given day decreases substantially. Therefore, unless you get your important life enhancing tasks done in the morning,

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September 17, 2018 No Comments
Discipline
Coach Mike

Improve Your Odds In Life By 90%: Eliminate These 7 Things

Life is uncertain. However, a disciplined man or woman will take steps to do what is in their power to reduce that uncertainty. Simply put, a wise person will make deliberate life choices that will stack the odds of avoiding trouble and complications in his favor.  With the 7 simple choices below you can reduce your chances of having avoidable complications in your life by a significant percentage. To be sure, doing several of them will set you apart from the crowd. But that’s what it takes to be a winner, and a wise person won’t allow themselves to be bothered by what other people think. Here are the 7 Things to Eliminate: 1. Don’t Smoke For a wise, disciplined man, this is a no-brainer. Not only does

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September 10, 2018 No Comments
Habits
Coach Mike

Magical Green and Orange Post-its

Last Wednesday, I was invited to speak at the Northwest Coaches monthly meeting in Tualatin. My subject was “Developing Habits for Real Change.” About 30 people attended. It was a lively and fun group and everyone seemed to really enjoy interacting with one another. As part of my talk, I handed out two colored Post-its, one orange and one green, to each person. At the end of my talk, I asked them think about the one new life habit they would add if they could magically have that habit tomorrow and then to write it on the orange Post-it. When they were done with that, I asked them to think about the one habit they currently have that if they could magically get rid of by tomorrow, what

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June 19, 2018 No Comments
Fitness
Coach Mike

Growing Younger

My wife and I were on vacation this last week, visiting family in Las Vegas, Nevada. We are hikers and the areas around Las Vegas have plenty of opportunities for hiking. On Saturday, we drove the rental car out to the Red Rocks National Conservation Area. The weather was good, not too hot and a bit of cloud cover. Joan and I hiked two different areas. In one area, we hiked up an area of incredible rock boulders and outcroppings. I climbed up and stood on a rock outcropping with sheer drops on three sides, making Joan a bit nervous :-). Then, we climbed down into a small canyon that wasn’t easy to get into. However, once there, we were rewarded by finding a small pool in the

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May 26, 2018 No Comments
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