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Daily Success Habits

by Brenton Russell on

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle

Habits are powerful factors in our lives. The quote above shows Aristotle saw the importance of habits. So too did Steven Covey with his best selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. As does Leo Babauta with his blog zenhabits.net which is one of the most popular websites in the world [In fact I strongly encourage you to visit his website if you want to read more on the importance of habits].

I’ll leave the theory to Leo and concentrate this post on sharing with you two of my success habits that I do every morning without fail.

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Long Overdue Lifestyle Design Update….

by Brenton Russell on

I’m going to skip the apologies about not posting for so long etc and get straight to the point of this post – an update on how my lifestyle design project has developed.

Instead of posting on lifestyle design here for the last twelve months I have been actively creating the lifestyle of my design. So what does this lifestyle look like? [read on…]

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Progress Report – Project Lifestyle Design: March 2011

If you’ve been following from the start, you’d understand that the project is aimed at managing my transition from my 13 year service in the Army into my new lifestyle design. Building Uncork Your Mind has been a great way to track my own progress, learn new online skills and write about one of my passions: lifestyle [...]

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8 Ways To Achieve Your Lifestyle Design

Its no secret, the internet is full of low value generic information and ‘me too’ articles. Spend a couple of dollars on a domain name, upload WordPress for free and the gates to the internet have now opened. With such low (almost no!) barriers to entry it’s no surprise that everyday sees more low value [...]

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How To Be Unhelpful – Give Others Advice

I’m a smart guy (just ask me!) with a lot of life experience. I’ve lead and managed diverse teams from 2 to 200 people. I’ve served in the Army in three combat zones, trained senior Iraqi Army officers, negotiated with Afghan warlords and shared meals with Taliban insurgents. I have an honours degree in Engineering, [...]

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The Breeze At Dawn

As a different type of post today, I thought that I would share a poem with you that I recently read. Noting that the poem is written by Rumi, a 13th century Persian Sufi mystic and poet, I’m sure that it can be interpreted in many different ways. On the surface I find it a great [...]

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Personal Mission Statements – Putting Your Vision To Work!

After recently writing a post about how can propel you towards your desired lifestyle design, it seemed natural to write about another useful lifestyle design goal setting and motivation tool: the Mission Statement.

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Progress Report – Project Lifestyle Design: February 2011

This month’s progress report reflects on the progress of Uncork Your Mind in my first full month of self-employment. A big month both on and offline saw a significant increase in traffic as well the purchase of a block of land to build our family home on and the receiving of an . Here are [...]

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