Success Archives - Randy Gage

The Challenge Worthy of You

Over the last three posts we’ve been looking at challenge. More specifically why we need it to create prosperity. On a certain level, we all know that. So why do we fight it so much? Some reasons pop to mind:

How Religion Clouds Your Future

This is the third in a series, about how we need to seek challenges, and how those challenges bring meaning and fulfillment to our lives. In the first post we looked at the Unabomber and how he was driven by his belief that the hard goals – the difficult problems the world needed to solve – were already done. The only goals left were the easy ones and the impossible ones, thus no real meaning or fulfillment in life, no reason to continue.

How You See Your Future

Last post we looked at the importance of having a challenge worthy of you. Whether you have one or not is probably determined in great part by your vision of the future. If you have an optimistic vision, you picture good things happening and want to prepare for them. You probably think of your future in productive ways like proper planning, a savings account, and creating a retirement plan.

Seeking Your Challenge

Oh the fine line – the microscopic distinction – between genius and insanity. Readers of my Mad Genius book will know this has been a topic that fascinated me for a long time. Maybe because some people think I’m a genius and other think I’m batshit crazy – and I secretly know that both camps are right. (And more than a few of the people who follow my work could describe themselves the same way.) So how do we navigate through the minefield, staying sane and able to function, but not giving up our belief that breakthrough change, brilliant ideas, and unexplored worlds still can come into being?

The Discipline of Self-Discipline

The problem with self-discipline is that it takes discipline. And the father you go on the path toward enlightenment, the more self-discipline you need. But here’s the really good news about it…

Your Real Legacy

I wrote Risky Is the New Safe to encourage entrepreneurs to take more chances, stop being timid and to explore new possibilities. This blog is my attempt to do the same thing for the world at large. The reason so many people live those lives of quiet desperation is because they are fear-based in almost every decision they make in life. The legacy they leave is one of not having messed up too publicly.

Your Messy Life

As I coach people, one thing comes up again and again. Their lives are messy and it’s driving them nuts. They’re desperate to get on “the path” – the linear, predictable steady ascent that ends up on the summit of happiness and success. They see their friends on Instagram always at swanky restaurants, Ibiza, or Burning Man and feel small and insignificant by comparison. The breaking news I have for them involves two deep truths:

The Command Center – Who Is Running Your Life?

Last post we looked at how asking the right question can move your focus from the external to the internal. Here’s why this is so critical. We all have a “command center” (subconscious mind) that governs our behavior. Think of it like the bridge and ship’s computer on the Starship Enterprise. Either you control the command center, or it controls you.

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