Something You Should Know about Achieving Goals

February 4, 2013

Interview with Judith Wright, author of the book Transformed!: The Science of Spectacular Living

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Mike Carruthers:
Ever feel like something is missing in your life?

Judith Wright:
Well I think all of us feel like some unfulfilled potential on us, some kind of nagging something, it’s something that feels like almost like an itch we’re not scratching.
 

Judith Wright

January 29, 2013

Interview with Timothy Ferris, author of the book The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

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Mike Carruthers:
Conventional wisdom is that to become excellent at something takes skill and years and years of practice. Well, maybe not.

Timothy Ferris:
What you find is there are many, many people who can become world class, meaning top 5% in the world in a given skill, in much shorter periods of time.  In some cases 6-12 months.
 

January 17, 2013

Interview with Jeremy Dean, author of the book Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick

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Mike Carruthers:
We all like to think we have control over what we do but try to change a habit and you discover you don’t have the control you think you do. Why?

Jeremy Dean:
Habits run mostly in the unconscious. And if you think that maybe 50% of the things that we do every day (and that’s what the studies suggest ) are actually habits then it’s very difficult to have total control over yourself.
 

January 3, 2013

Interview with Thomas Corley, CPA, author of the book Rich Habits - The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals

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Mike Carruthers:
For the most part it’s assumed that wealthy people got that way because they inherited their money - but apparently that’s not true.

Thomas Corley, CPA:
85% of wealthy children never inherit a dime. We don’t have wealth class because 85% of the wealth comes and goes in 1 generation.