Episode 152: The consequences of convenience

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Yes, things are getting more convenient. Yes, that means progress. But are we doing useful things with our free time? What are we losing through our newly found conveniences?

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• First supermarket
• Wegmans
• Instacart
• Postmates
• Kroger
• New York State Fair
• Jetsons
• Zig Ziglar

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Episode 151: Habits

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Habits can be good for you — meditation or exercise, for example — or bad for you, like smoking. But we know a few things about habits, like that you can only replace a habit with a habit, and how long it takes to form habits.

'I can't help it' is a habit' -- @kelvinringold #betterhumanhood Click To Tweet

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• Learning to Fly by Steph Davis | Steph Davis on Instagram
• Our episode with Camille Nisich
• Star Wars
• Respond vs. react
• Anatomy of a Habit (PDF)
• Habits and Brain Mutations by Richard Cross
• MKMMA
• Tony Robbins
• Systematizing a moral code

'Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do' -- John Wooden #betterhumanhood #notjustwords #motivation Click To Tweet

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Episode 150: Affirmations

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We get into affirmations, little reminders that you’ve been successful before so you can be successful again. Keep achieving and get closer to your goals!

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• MKMMA
• Mark J
• Derek Sivers
• Jim Rohn
• “Finding Nemo”
• Kelvin’s a coach

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Episode 149: Control and letting go

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“Human beings come into the world with a passion for control,” writes Dan Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness. “They go out of the world the same way, and research suggests that if they lose their ability to control things at any point between their entrance and their exit, they become unhappy, helpless, hopeless and depressed” (p. 22).

What would happen if you decided to let go of some of that control? Could you do it?

LINKS
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• 10x Rule by Grant Cardone
• “The Millionaire”
• Publishers Clearing House
• Vertigo
• Our discussion with Nick Jankel
• Our discussion with Cathy O’Dowd
• Our episode on responding vs. reacting

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Episode 148: What drives you?

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What is your motivation for doing what you do? We delve into why you need a why.

A lot of times we are not fully in touch with our motivations to do something - @kelvinringold #betterhumanhood #notjustwords Click To Tweet

Links
• MKMMA
• Kelvin’s podcast
• Josh’s podcast
• 7 levels deep
• Start with why
• Daniela Fernandez on Big Questions
• My Intent
• Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

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Episode 147: Power of 3 Leadership with Steven Mays

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Steven Mays is proud to have grown up a military brat. After graduating the United States Naval Academy in 1974, he joined the Navy Nuclear Power program. He served on attack submarines, and later went on to a civilian career involving safety and risk evaluations of nuclear power plants.

Through both his military and civilian careers, he ran into good leaders and bad leaders, and when he boiled it down, he realized that there were a few things the good leaders had that the bad leaders were missing.

He detailed these in this short book, Power of 3: Lessons in Leadership, and brings us those lessons today. Don’t let the length of this podcast throw you — this was a wide-ranging conversation that just flew by. Enjoy!

'We have a dearth of good leadership in world, and we suffer for it.' -- Steven Mays #betterhumanhood #leadership Click To Tweet

Links:
• Power of 3 Leadership | The Power of 3: Lessons in Leadership
• Simon Sinek | Start With Why
• Winston Churchill
• Nelson Mandela
• Mahatma Gandhi
• George Patton
• Douglas MacArthur
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck
• Michael Jordan
• Richard Nixon
• Bill Clinton
• David Petraeus
• Aesop’s Fables
• “The Road Not Traveled” by Robert Frost

'Leaders fix problems.' -- Steven Mays #leadership #betterhumanhood Click To Tweet

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'Leaders are *we* people, not *I* people' -- Steven Mays #betterhumanhood #leadership Click To Tweet

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Episode 146: First quarter of 2019 is over; are you on track?

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Hey there, it’s the end of the first quarter of 2019! Is time getting away from you? Are you ahead of schedule? Now’s a good time to reassess and refocus.

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• MKMMA
• Our episode with Ari Meisel
• Becoming Superhuman with Nick Sonnenberg
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• IFTTT
• Hootsuite

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Episode 145: Switch On with Nick Seneca Jankel

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Nick Jankel is a thought leader, author, professional speaker and co-founder of Switch On. We have a wide-ranging talk on work, AI, the environment and control mode vs. create mode, among other things.

'Purpose is love in action' --@NickJankel #betterhumanhood #notjustwords Click To Tweet

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'There ain't no such thing as artificial wisdom' --@NickJankel #betterhumanhood #notjustwords Click To Tweet

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• Amazon author page (non-affiliate link)
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'If the school system did its job, I wouldn't have a job' --@NickJankel #betterhumanhood #notjustwords Click To Tweet

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• Plastic straw bans
• Wabi-sabi
• Who Moved My Cheese?

'It doesn't take much to stop most of us' --@KelvinRingold #betterhumanhood #notjustwords Click To Tweet

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Episode 144: Covert contracts

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Do you have expectations of someone that you haven’t told them about, but you resent them for not meeting those expectations anyway? This is an example of a covert contract — and it can ruin a relationship.

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Links:
• Practical Wisdom by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• Our episode on choice
• Chris Rock
• Tony Robbins
• Wayne Dyer
• I reserve the right to change episode | Essay
• Hurricane Katrina
• What will this Walmart greeter do as the position changes?

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Episode 143: You don’t have to go it alone

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It’s OK to ask for help. In fact, sometimes it’ll save you time and money. Take it from two guys with chronic do-everything-yourself-itis.

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• This Child Will be Great by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
• Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life They Change It by Daniel Klein
• A runner killed an attacking mountain lion without a weapon
• Carpenter Falls
• Chittenango Falls
• Click Funnels
• Fiverr
• TaskRabbit
• Upwork

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