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Accept Responsibility

When people spend time with you, do they come away feeling better or worse? Would you want to spend time with you?

One way to guarantee that people come away feeling worse is to complain. Nobody wants to be around a complainer. Each time you complain, you are simply reliving a bad experience. The solution: stop complaining and start reframing. Find something positive about your situation and focus your energy there.

Assume you are assigned a task at work that you either don’t want or don’t agree with. You can choose to have a bad attitude and complain about it, or you can accept that you have two viable options: Find a way out by convincing someone else to do it, or figure out how to get it done yourself.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, Stop Complaining, Take Control of Your Life.

#59 Year End Life Review

The end of the year is the perfect time to do a year end life review. Start by taking inventory of your life. Decide on what you would like to focus on. Create a plan and take action.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, Enjoy your accomplishments, Increase your productivity, manifest, Podcasts, productivity, Self improvement, Take action, Take Control of Your Life, year end review.

#56 Visualize Your Desired Outcome

90SecondNavigator-AlbumArt Once you have identified and researched what you would like to be, do, or have, the next step is to visualize your desired outcome. …

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, incremental steps toward reaching goals, manifest, Podcasts, Uncategorized, vision board, Visualization.

#54 Self Discovery

Self discovery brought me to the mindset of living from intention. Set your intention then use the tools I will share to get where you want to go.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, Live from intention, Podcasts.

Living From Intention

I write this on the eve of my 47th birthday. My wife and kids are out and I have the house to myself. I am reflecting on my life thus far. I have to say the ride has been amazing. I feel so fortunate to be where I am. I owe it to the people closest to me who helped bring me to a path of self-discovery.

Self-discovery has been critical for me. After a tough run in my 20’s, I realized that if I didn’t want to be stressed out my whole life, I needed to figure out how to manage it.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in abundance, Direct Your Life, Live from intention.

#50 Cognitive Reframing

Cognitive reframing is the act of taking a thought that doesn’t serve you and redirecting your mind to focus on something more pleasing. Today we discuss ways to use this skill in daily life.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Cognitive Reframing, control your thoughts, Direct Your Life, Direct your mind, Podcasts.

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