The Great Key to Successful Living
At a party last week, I bumped into a distracted woman wearing a frown. “Hey, don’t hog all the fun,” I said with a wink. She shook her head and gave me a slightly embarrassed smile. “It’s just that when I come to social events like these, I cringe when…
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Concentrate on This
Recently one of my good friends, Bob, experienced a family emergency. Like many ETR readers, he is now responsible for the medical care of a parent, while still having the responsibilities that go along with trying to grow a business. Perhaps you are facing a similar dilemma of priorities in…
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How to Build Your Family Wealth
The real wealth in your family is in its human, not its financial, capital. This is one of the secrets of establishing a lasting legacy. Concentrate on your family… and the wealth will follow. Families that successfully preserve wealth for generations are always made up of individuals with financially valuable…
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The All-Time Best Way to Get (and Keep) a Customer
If you can’t sell your product or service, you don’t have a business. Plain and simple. So, as Michael Masterson has said in ETR and in Ready, Fire, Aim, your primary concern has to be making sales.
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5 Ways To Do Nothing
I got an email at five in the morning that made me angry. It pressed every button. It accused. It threatened. It copied other people. It attempted to make me feel guilt. It attempted to make me feel fear. I can go on. I started to type a response and…
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Ultimate Guide to Finding Good People in Your Life
Create a real-world and Internet community of highly-driven individuals who can help you reach the goals you want to achieve in life.
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How to Get Richer – Or Poorer
You go to lunch with a colleague. Everything is good. When the waiter puts the bill on the table, the total is $26. Do you pick it up? Do you wait and hope he does? Or do you suggest you split it? On the surface, this is a minor decision.…
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Concentricity
We are living through a period of human history when morality has become a passé topic. For that very reason, vigilance and self-discipline are in order, because morality is perhaps the most important element in leading a successful life. In that vein, the first step is to define your moral…
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How YOU Helped Santa Save Christmas
Woo hoo! I have great news to brighten your already amazing Christmas season! Here at Early To Rise YOU helped us raise a record $102,173 for the Denver Toys for Tots Marines charity toy drive. With this money, over sixty ETR team members, friends, and family visited three Wal-Mart stores…
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Just Try and Do This
Last week I was emailing back and forth with a frustrated business partner. We’ll call him, “G.” Like you, G works hard to support his family, but he’s in a niche industry and he doesn’t see a lot of room for improvement. On the other hand, I do, and I…
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Politically Incorrect – But True
Back in 1980 when my father made the decision that we were going to defect from communist Russia and come to the United States he had three steps in his “making it in America” plan. 1. Enter the United States legally – because he was convinced that when you EARN…
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The Phrase that Pays
It’s 4:21am. The stars and moon are out on another gorgeous night in South Florida. I’m working in my friend Joel Marion’s sunroom office. It’s big enough for four people, but it’s just he and I. Every morning I get up at 4am, no matter where I am in the…
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