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Something You Should Know about Staying Positive

The Benefits Of A Positive Attitude

May 20, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Hilary Tindle, author of the book Up: How Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Having a positive and optimistic outlook helps, it helps a lot.

 

Dr. Hilary Tindle:
Optimists have fewer heart attacks, they live longer, they live healthier, they’re better “copers”, they’re less likely to get depression, anxiety, etcetera.
 
Hilary Tindle M.D.

How You View Money

May 3, 2013

 

Interview with Glenn Smiley, author of the book All in the Name of Love

 

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Mike Carruthers:
How you view money in your life probably has a lot to do with how your parent's viewed money.

 

Glenn Smyly:
We watch how our parent's did money and then we make decisions like, "there's not enough money, I can't afford to buy that." We tend to limit ourselves in the amount of money we make to have it be just a little more than our parent's did.
 
Glenn Smyly

Secrets To Health & Longevity

April 19, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Gary Small, author of the book Longevity Bible, The: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp and Your Body Young

 

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Mike Carruthers:
It turns out that keeping your mind sharp greatly affects your overall health.

 

Dr. Gary Small:
With a sharp mind we're more likely to stay fit, have good relationships, eat well and live an overall healthy lifestyle.
 
Dr. Gary Small

The Power Of Hope - Part 2

March 14, 2012

 

Interview with Dr. Shane Lopez, author of the book Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Although they seem similar wishing and hoping are very different. What is wishing?

 

Dr. Shane Lopez:
It’s believing that the future will be better than the present and I just have to kick back and wait for it – that’s wishing.
 
Dr. Shane Lopez

The Power Of Hope

March 13, 2012

 

Interview with Dr. Shane Lopez, author of the book Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Do you consider yourself someone who has a lot of hope?

 

Dr. Shane Lopez:
Hope is the belief that the future will be better than the present coupled with the belief that you have the power to make it so.
 
Dr. Shane Lopez

How Charming Are You?

March 8, 2013

 

Interview with Brian Tracy, co-author of the book The Power of Charm: How to Win Anyone Over in Any Situation

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you want to be successful you have to be charming.

 

Brian Tracy:
The fact is that 85% of your success or lack of success is going to be determined by your relationships with other people. And the fact is that people who are the most successful are described by others as nice people.
 
Brian Tracy

How To Increase Energy & Reduce Stress

January 18, 2013

 

Interview with Jon Gordon, author of the book The 10-Minute Energy Solution

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The next time you're stressed out think about this…

 
Jon Gordon:
It's physiologically impossible to be stressed and thankful at the same time it's the way our brains are wired.
Jon Gordon

Habits Of Wealthy People Part 2

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.
 
Thomas Corley CPA

Habits Of Wealthy People

January 2, 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:
When you compare wealthy people with people who don’t have money you find that…

 

Thomas Corley, CPA:
Their daily activities are just completely different in many respects and I summarized these difference into what I call 10 common success habits that wealthy people have.
 
Thomas Corley CPA

When You Worry Too Much

December 12, 2012

 

Interview with Kathryn Tristan, author of the book Why Worry?: Stop Coping and Start Living

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Worrying is fine; worrying too much is a problem.

 

Kathryn Tristan:
1 out of 2 Americans will suffer at some time in their life from anxiety, from depression or from addiction. And that stems back to how we’re thinking about our challenges and how we worry – this is a huge problem.
 
Kathryn Tristan

Kathryn Tristan, author of the book Why Worry?...

 

A lot of times this is learned from childhood. Some scientists say that your mind is like an idling car it always has thought patterns in the back that were running that are ready to kick into reality once something happens. And if you are trained and wired to be a worrier and a worry wart then that is going to be your modus operandi that is what you’re going to kick into.

 

When you start to worry obsessively, Kathryn says, it helps to get very specific, write it down or say it out loud, give voice to your worry then you can question it.

 

Turn it around instead of thinking I’ve got a headache maybe it’s a brain tumor and I have cancer you think is that an actual thought, no I actually disagree with that. So you turn your situations around but you also are realistic and you’re solution-oriented.

 

If your mind is occupied with positive things it can’t be worrying. And then there’s that big never changing statistic.

 

Science has shown that 85% of what we worry about never happens. So we have the choice of using that idea to try to help us decide if what we’re worrying about is reasonable or not.
 

   
 

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