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Are You Living an Incremental Life? You Should Be
The first step in seeing your goals and dreams realized is to realize that there are steps to reaching those goals and dreams. How’s that for a convoluted sentence? A successful life is one that is...
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How Should I Determine My Goals?
I wrote in my last post about how one of the facets of The Incremental Life is to have goals and dreams in mind—a destination to work toward. There are those who have no problems with goal setting,...
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Goals Can’t Be Compartmentalized
Before you launch into setting down your goals and start making plans on how to reach them, there’s another concept that needs to be understood and become a permanent part of your thinking. Don’t fall...
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How to Create Goals that Stick
Making goals and attempting to turn dreams into reality are as common to humans as breathing. From the time we are able to understand that change is possible—that renewal of self is possible—we begin...
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Why You Should Craft a Mission Statement
If you’re an entrepreneur or some other type of self-starter, it’s likely that most of your goals revolve around your business or another sort of major undertaking. Now that you’ve spent some time...
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Achieving Forward Motion by Facing Your Fears
I was listening to a past EntreLeadership podcast on my morning walk a few days ago and heard a guest co-host named Rory Vaden say, “Peace is about having a longer-term perspective…Any problem in...
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How to Turn Your Goals Into an Actionable Plan
The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said, “A goal without a plan is just a wish, a hope likely to fail and impossible to attain. Give passionate dreaming a structure, and reality moves to...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Write Things Down
Why do I advocate writing things like goals, mission statements, fears, and plans out? Why not just keep mental track? Why not jot quick notes down on your phone or leave a voice memo? I’m a big...
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5 Steps to Align Your Daily To-Do List with Your Goals
How do you know if you’re truly making progress each day toward your goals? Last week, you learned how to turn your goals into an actionable plan, which means you made a plan that is simple, specific,...
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Priorities Should (and Will) Shift Over Time
As you work to be more intentional about how you live your life, and as you take the time to ask yourself “who do I want to become”, you will often find that the answer to the question changes over...
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The Secret Formula for Incremental Change
My wife and I are coordinating Financial Peace University again this semester, and this week’s lesson was the one for which Dave Ramsey is most known. It’s all about getting out of debt using the Debt...
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There’s No Comparison Shopping Allowed on the Road to Awesome
There’s an old quote from Theodore Roosevelt that’s one of the truest statements ever uttered by a human. “Comparison is the thief of joy.” I’m all for taking a look at successful people and gleaning...
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The Three Most Important Reasons to Plan for Retirement
During my family’s journey toward debt freedom we absorbed all sorts of material about how to win with money. It’s no surprise that the major bulk of our study was produced by Dave Ramsey, and that’s...
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The Blessing of Criticism
Have you had a rough week from your critics? Don’t let the naysayers get you down. Take some time this weekend to evaluate the substance of the criticisms that have been lobbed your way. Consider if...
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The Power of Incremental Change
Have you ever wondered about how well people fare in the future when you hear they’ve lost huge amounts of weight in a short period of time? (Think: The Biggest Loser). Often you’ll see follow-up...
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The Six V’s of Life Change
Changing your life for the better can be hard, and it’s made harder with so much competing and contradictory information available today. Everyone—including me—has an opinion about the steps you...
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Progress is Progress
Progress is Progress. No matter how slow you go, you’re still lapping everybody on the couch. Click here for my complete collection of shareable images. Jeff M. Miller (@jmarkmiller) I’m Jeff M....
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Why You Should Learn to Delay Gratification
We have three cats in our home and they’re really fun to watch at times. One of the most enjoyable things they do is to chase after things, whether it’s a laser light, a ball of paper, or a piece of...
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Reflections on The Incremental Life
After a week off of posting, as well as two previous weeks with minimal posting, I’m back to getting posts out at a regular clip. I’ve had my head down putting finishing touches on my first...
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Free Download—99 Ways to Upgrade Your Life NOW!
After months of teasers, promises, and false starts, I’m pleased to announce that my new ebook, 99 Ways to Upgrade Your Life NOW!, is finally available. Originally titled The Road to Awesome, this book...
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