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Today’s world has embraced a superficial culture. We pick entertainment, style and impression over actual things of substance and impact.

It’s more profitable to look good rather than be good in this culture.

But the good news is: you can develop our capacity for common sense and build your substance.

And when you become a person of impact, you can achieve the success you aspire for.

In this episode, you’ll discover the critical elements you need to develop your common sense. You’ll also discover how to develop a discerning ability and how to use it to guarantee your success.

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Show Highlights Include:

• The 3 critical elements you need to develop your capacity for common sense—in 30 days or less. (3:08)
• How to convert your knowledge into intelligence and use it to impact your family and community. (3:38)
• How this second fundamental element of common sense makes you more confident in your decision-making. (5:17)
• The third fundamental element of common sense you need to achieve the success you want (without falling into potholes). (5:43)
• Why discernment is not enough for you to succeed (and the important variable you need that may be missing). (8:32)

Some say that paying attention to small things make big things happen. And while you may not be able to get everything perfect, paying attention to the details is where you make something great.

Details are more important than time. And when you focus on one spot at a time, you learn more in your tasks (and act greater). Details make perfection and it’s worth waiting to get something right.

In this episode, you’ll learn why attention to details makes all the difference in your success.

Show Highlights Include:

• Why a painter, pastor, and football coach all focus on the details to accomplish great things. (1:00)
• How to have Picasso Precision for everything you do in life. (4:00)
• How to keep every detail in sync and win championships like Vince Lombardi and John Madden. (6:52)
• The Mindcraft Mentality for remaining faithful to details (and wherever they may lead). (11:55)

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Focus is a must to achieve success, but concentrated focus is critical to sustaining any kind of success, regardless of the endeavor.

However, our focus appears to be diminishing to dangerous levels.

And it’s no surprise we’re so distracted.

In this age of technology and digital overload, we’re saturated with content and overwhelmed with sounds and images competing for our attention every second.

So how do we increase our focus and build concentration?

In this episode, you’ll discover how a lack of focus negatively affects you. You’ll learn effective focus management techniques that help you build laser-like focus and keep you moving toward your goals.

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Show Highlights Include:

• How sights and sounds from digital devices kill our focus and reconfigure our brain negatively. (2:00)
• Why you need to build concentration (and how neglecting it can introduce chaos in our lives) (4:15)
• How a lack of focus decimates our careers, retention ability and relationships. (4:06)
• 5 focus management techniques that rewire our brains and renew focus. (and how temporary amnesia drives us towards our goals) (08:34)

Do you want to stop existing and start living your best life right now? Click here to get the first chapter of Dr. Rick’s best-selling book, Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, for free.

Our brain is one of the most important organs in our body.

It’s a powerhouse that drives us everyday.

We’ve not even begun to use its full potential power. Experts agree that we only use a small fraction of our brain power at any given time.

But just like other muscles in your body, if you don’t use your brain you’ll eventually lose function of it.

So we must keep training it.

In this episode, you’ll discover how you can significantly improve your brainpower and cognitive skills. I’ll reveal the habits that increase the risk losing function of your brain at later stages of your life, and how you can avoid them.

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Show Highlights Include:

• The tactics my wife used to significantly improve my mother’s memory (you can use them even if you’re above 80) (1:14)
• How you can use my annoying professor’s ‘no-calculator’ policy to develop your brain power. (2:11)
• How navigating without electronic devices during road trips can increase your cognitive function and math, astronomy and logic skills. (5:49)
• Why using GPS can weaken your brain (and how you can train your brain to avoid early dementia) (8:33)

Do you want to stop existing and start living your best life right now? Click here to get the first chapter of Dr. Rick’s best-selling book, Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, for free.

With everything happening in the world, everyone needs a space they can feel safe in.

Turning on the TV makes you full of anxious and fear. You want to help others but feel without hope.

Living in bad news for too long breaks the most uplifting spirits. It traumatizes the mind and turns everything else toxic (even if you don’t realize it).

Having a safe space is about more than stepping out of the world for a moment. It makes you happier, feel more at peace, and ready to take on the rest of the day.

In this episode, you’ll discover how to tune out the notifications and news for a space that revitalizes your soul for real impact in the world.

Show Highlights Include:

• How to avoid mental pollution from the everyday news cycle and find a safe space for your spirit. (0:52)
• The ‘Emergency Room’ perspective on seeking relief (when there is none left in the world). (4:16)
• Using the Psychology Today meaning of ‘refuge’ to step out of the world and find your peace. (7:17)
• The soul-fulfilling things you can do to tune out the noise and find peace in the world. (8:51)
• The Philippians Way to give your mind a break and be completely at one with yourself. (11:06)

Do you want to stop existing and start living your best life right now? Click here to get the first chapter of Dr. Rick’s best-selling book, Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, for free.