Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  Winter Fishing Community of Trout River!

Snuggled in a sheltered cove on the West Coast of Nfld. [ near… Gros Morne National Park]

October 18, 2019

Uprooting Your Habits, both good-ones and bad-ones, takes considerable commitment!  I’m personally working on replacing the word “but” with “and.”

The word but may trigger a negative reaction because it sounds like I’m counteracting one’s proposal.

The word and sounds like I’m adding or complimenting their suggestion.

Example:

“Mark, your proposal sounds amazing.  We’ll be able to satisfy the employees and generate more sales.  And it may entail a bigger budget that seems a little out of our reach.”

You first acknowledge Mark for all the benefits of his proposal (that it will be able to satisfy the employees and create more sales).  Then you wittingly mention the objection at the end (that it will necessitate a larger budget, which the company may not approve).

The second sentence begins with and not but so the objection is perceived to be more of an additional comment rather than a criticism.

Using an illustrator/cartoonist, Darren Hardy’s message today is Uprooting Your Bad Habits.

Most people can relate to this story.  Swallowing medicine is easier with a spoonful of sugar!!!

Inch by inch it’s a cinch … 😉

Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  St. John’s Row Houses … in Winter!

I’ve been told that if anything Newfoundland winters are good about, it’s their ability to clear the snow off the streets.

October 11, 2019

Good morning World!  Although the unemployment rate has fallen to 3.5 percent, new data on job openings shows a drop to 17 months lows.  What’s more, the level of hiring and quitting is also showing a slowdown.  [Although these are USA stats … Canadian unemployment stats have also improved.]

This is typical when the job market reaches full employment, and many have argued that even a 5 percent unemployment rate is a worthy goal.  But given this slowdown, which hasn’t showed up on a rising rate yet, the window appears to be closing, if ever so slightly, on finding a new, higher-paying job.

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Should you be thinking of change, job related, here are four keys to remember:

1. Believe in yourself and your message first, before attempting to make anyone believe in you.  Your own conviction will manifest in your words and actions.  You’ve probably heard about cult leaders who relayed their messages with such intensity and unfettered emotions that the audience would do anything being told to them, even if it means ending their own lives!  But of course, you should use this only for good means.
2. Be consistent.  Establish trust so people are more likely to believe you.  Then say words that are honest and consistent with your actions and body language, so your future messages are more credible.  Make sure that your voice volume, pitch, and tone, as well as your gestures, are appropriate for the current situation.  Just imagine the insult and awkwardness if you’re attending a funeral and you suddenly laugh.  Be aware of your words and movement always.
3. Be yourself.  Don’t be someone you’re not.  If you’re in love with someone, for example, but have qualities not compatible with him and fake your behavior or “wing” things just to impress him, sooner or later, you’ll be found out.  Don’t claim to be someone you’re not.
4. Never lie.  One lie, just one lie you say, will make people doubt whether all the past things you’ve said are true.  That will ruin their trust in you, and they might never believe you again.

Whatever you say from then on, they will scrutinize first and ask themselves, “Can that be true?”  And when you’re persuading people, you possibly allow them to have any doubts in their minds!

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.  Both poverty and riches   are the offspring of thought!” —Napoleon Hill

To your success … however YOU define it!  😉

Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  View of the center city and the Basilica, old St. John’s, Newfoundland.

A bit ‘of a taste’ of winter!!!

October 04, 2019

Nothing Stands in the Way … Not Even

Good morning.  De Beers, the family behind one of the world’s largest fortunes, helped coin the phrase “a diamond is forever.”  That may be true for the life of a purchaser, but a diamond is actually an unstable form of carbon that will eventually change — albeit in thousands of years.

Nevertheless, changing consumer demands are doing what geology will take eons to do.  Sales are down nearly 44 percent in the past year, as consumers are shifting to different gemstones, including lab-grown diamonds instead.  Investment lesson?  Nothing is forever.

What you deem a treasury, to be of great wealth later, may very well not!

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Who’s feeling stressed?  These days, pretty much everyone, all the time, which is not surprising considering that stress can come from many angles and forms: social, physical, financial, emotional, psycho-spiritual, environmental, mental, and cultural.

Stress isn’t bad; in fact, just like the Goldilocks Principle tells us, we need just the right amount to thrive.  Too little can be just as harmful and impairing as too much.  However, since most people have too much on their plates (even if it’s just a matter of perception), stress management tactics are priceless for protecting your limited, valuable resources…  😉

Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  Think it’s Saint Pierre, France.

… I forgot the cheese with those bagels.

September 27, 2019

2 Simple Ways Of Building Faith In Yourself

Building Faith

Faith is one of the essential ingredients to success.  If you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t try your best.   When you don’t try your best, you simply won’t succeed.  When you don’t have faith in yourself, you will unconsciously self sabotage your efforts.  You will get frustrated and you will quit.

But how can you build faith in yourself when you feel like a failure?

Review Past Success

We often forget how awesome we really are.  We forget some of the amazing things that we have accomplished in the past.  For me, its bouncing back after I lost everything.  For others, it might be recovering from an abusive childhood or an abusive relationship.  If you look hard enough, you will find that you have accomplished something of meaningful significance.  If you can’t find it, you haven’t looked hard enough.  It’s there.

But even if you have difficuity finding some meaningful achievements in your life, you can always took at the thousands of “against all odds” victories that many have lived before.  You will find them in multiple places: the bookstore, the library, online, movies that are based on a true story etc.

When you look at these stories, you will find that there are many who have started with less than you, yet they still achieved success anyway.  They may have started with less money, less time, less contacts and/or less education.  They had the odds stacked against them yet they still made it.  If they can do it, why can’t you?

Take Action

Sometimes building belief is just about starting even when you don’t think you are ready.  When you get started, you realize that it my be hard hard but not so hard that you can’t do it.  If you decide to set a mini goal for yourself, you’ll build confidence when you achieve it.  If your goal is to lose weight, maybe your first goal is to lose that first pound.  If your goal is to write a book, your first goal might be to write everyday for a week.  What’s important is that you set your goal and then achieve it (no matter how small).  That way you can build momentum, confidence and most importantly faith in yourself.

Did This Help You?
Create A Great Day!  😉

Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  Think it’s Saint Pierre, France.

Wonderful, I will just pop across and grab some fresh bagels…

September 20, 2019

For Giving Friday!
Good morning.  Gold is often derided as a “barbarous relic” that has no place in a modern financial system.  And while governments often shun the metal and those who invest in it, central bankers are playing a different tune.

Central banks around the world have been huge buyers of the metal, and recent purchases by the central banks of Russia and China suggest the metal has more room to run.  That’s especially true in a world of increasingly negative interest rates on government bonds, which make gold’s zero-percent interest look downright attractive.

What’s holding you back?

Two of the biggers things that hold people back from making big-time progress toward their health and wellness goals are information overload and the search for the next big thing.  Let’s take a look at these and how you can overcome them.

Information overload.  We’re fortunate to be living in the information-packed Digital Age, but this blessing can also be a curse if we just bathe in “stuff” without ever doing anything with it.  And in this unprecedented time of self-tracking (e.g., sleep, macros, heart rate, and so on), I find that most people, figuratively speaking, are like hamsters spinning on a wheel; they’re trapped consuming information and collecting data — without doing anything with it.

If you really want to personalize your healthcare, seek to apply relevant knowledge.  Instead of tracking more measurements and compiling more dependent variables, gain wisdom through application.  By no means is that meant to dis-courage you from testing and collecting objective data, which is indeed very important.  What I’m saying is that rather than gathering more informa-tion, we often need to use the information we already have in a better way.

As author Ryan Holiday says, “When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: ‘What do l plan to do with this information?’” (Yes, that goes for this blog too.)

Looking for the next big thing.  This trend (which probably isn’t going anywhere any time soon) piggybacks on the one mentioned above.  As functional medicine clinician Dr. Bryan Walsh recently said on in an interview, “How many people buy a whole bunch of books on a topic because they’re looking for the answer when the answer may have been there, but they just didn’t really sit down to apply it?”

The crux of it is that as soon as we start looking for “the next big thing,” isolating variables or looking myopically at individual markers, systems of the body and pieces of the puzzle, we often miss the forest for the trees.  For Dr. Walsh, “My antidote is to go back to the basics.  Forget all this fancy stuff.”

If you keep chasing that next shiny object, chances are you’ll never stick with anything long enough to move the needle, and if you do, you may never know what worked.  This isn’t meant to disparage innovation nor is intended to discourage scientific discovery; rather, as we reach new frontiers, the encouragement is to connect the dots rather than isolate variables.

Gold just might be one of those shiny objects … the next big thing!  🙂

Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  You Come From Aways!

It doesn’t matter how you get there … only that you come to visit!

September 13, 2019

“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” —Napoleon Hill

Visualize Your Success

If you’ve had any kind of exposure to success technologies, you’ve certainly heard about the power of visualization.

Well, it’s true.  It works.  We attract what we think about.  And we do it all the time — consciously or unconsciously.  The key is to direct our visualization in a positive rather than a negative fashion — to take charge of what we visualize in order to attract what we want.

Our subconscious minds can’t tell the difference between reality and what we vividly imagine.  It’s a powerful thing indeed.

Many people don’t consciously visualize on a regular basis.  They think they can’t do it right, so they figure, why bother.  But like anything else, it takes practice.  The more you do it, the better you get.  The payoff is substantial.

“A vision without a task is but a dream.  A task without a vision is drudgery.  A vision with a task is the hope of the world.”

Picture what you want.  Imagine all the details.  Use all of your senses.  Fill your mind with a vibrant, real picture of your success.  You get what you focus on, so focus on your success.  🙂

September 13, 2018

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September 13, 2017

Here’s a quick snap of Esme finding her first geocache in New Brunswick.  I chuckle with the pictures we took, and the many smiles we shared, and what fun we had.

Directly below Caryl and myself; [and to the right] Alan and Olly Douglas.

What a WHALE of a day!

Caryl and I talk about our vacation to Nova Scotia with friends and family all-the-time; but to the family that shared these experiences firsthand, I owe my utmost understanding of what traveling together means.

When we went whale watching this day, sure we saw whales, but what hit me was the immensity of the water, the tight quarters on board this, our tall ship, and how we relied upon each other, as those traveling half-way around the world must have depended upon each other for their very survival.  What a fabulous day this was … I, as my wife Caryl, will remember it always!  Thanks…

We’ll be back!

Rob W.

Here’s to a better YOU … and now … Today’s DarrenDaily Recap Sunday.  A collection of the weeks videos from Darren Hardy.  Enjoy!

Describing its beauty!!!  Saint-Pierre and Miquelon … Breath Taking!

Just offshore of the southern tip of Newfoundland… France.

September 06, 2019

“Men do not die from overwork.  They die from dissipation and worry.”
—Charles Evans Hughes

You can’t simply stop worrying.  You have to replace your worry by thinking about desired results — something good instead of something bad.  Start working on the solution rather than a possible negative outcome.

Thankfully, most of what we worry about never occurs.  The French philosopher Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote in the 1500’s, “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”

What do you worry about?  I’ve found most people are excellent worriers.  They worry about illness, lack of money, old age, taxes, the next generation — you name it!  They burn up their energy, lower their resistance to illness and actually draw to them what they fear.  Like Job in the Bible, “That which I have feared has come upon me.”

Our hospitals and cemeteries are filled with people who made worry an everyday companion.  Don’t be one of them.  If you suffer from this affliction, you need to cure yourself.  By doing so, you’ll be healthier, live longer, have more fun and produce more of what you want.

I’ll leave with closing thoughts from Norman Vincent Peale:

“Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.”

P.S.  After university, I bought a signage business of my own and operated it for several years.  During this time, I learned the secret to making a small fortune in business.  It’s kind of inside information, and I don’t pass it around to just anybody.  Ready?  Here it is: start out with a large one.  And sooner or later, you’ll have a small one.  😉

September 06, 2018

This is what keeps me up at night!

I think of this quote: “It is what we don’t know that holds us back.”

I’m always thinking about the things I don’t know that I need to learn for the next step…

September 06, 2017

Meeting family for the first time can be interesting.  “Will they like me?  Will we get along … how well will we get along?”

Planning a two-week road trip can be a bit daunting.  Implementing those plans when they intersect with real people’s lives … family people … that go to their day jobs, but now you want to meet, and they want to meet with you!  Add in a course correction or two, take in the sites, and to still arrive on time.  Where?  When?  We are meeting who?  Siblings and children of a cousin “neither-has-ever met before today” … now that’s exciting.  It’s even better when the smiles and hugs are genuine.  I don’t know who it was within our group who said it first, “But why wouldn’t we?  We come from good stock!”  I can’t argue with that: The WILLIAM’S family heritage logic…

Here are the specifics of the day as they unfolded … if I get it wrong, I’m sure I will be made to make it right!

We piled into the KIA soon after enjoying our continental breakfast, and checking out of the Chocolate Lake “Best Western.”  Yes, all our luggage was onboard, as we headed east toward Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  We had a timed stop and meet-up in Antigonish [Tim Hortons], NS with Liann and her daughter Kierra.

Liann is Dione’s sister, whom we met at the airport Saturday when we arrived, and again on Sunday, when we had lunch together.  [Monday we travelled to Liverpool, Tuesday we came back to Halifax, and today, you guessed it is Wednesday.]

We piled into the KIA for a second time, after saying our goodbyes and exchanging even more hugs.  We were informed while visiting in Antigonish that we should not eat anything more as [cousin] Joan and [her daughter] Dione were awaiting our arrival with a “big spread.”  Joan lives in a lovely home, “back in the woods.”

Not exactly, the best of explanations, but it will suit this driver’s tale.  The roads were great, the directions clear, but we still managed to miss the driveway … no problem … spoke to a few neighbors … and off we were again!  This time we didn’t miss the sign.  [Cousin Joan, pictured center below, said she had not see any “outside family” for forty-seven-years!]

Joan was wonderful.  Her hospitality shone throughout … Lady!  You had nothing to worry about.  We all loved you!  I’m sure we could have stayed much later than we did, but unfortunately, we needed to check-in with the proprietors’ of the McIntyre Cottages, located just up the road from Baddeck, NS.  We again unloaded our luggage from the vehicle, checked out our respective cottages, and retired for evening.  Tomorrow morning, after breakfast, we meet up with Joan and Dione to travel the Cabot Trail together in the spacious Sedona.  [Stay tuned into tomorrow when we share our spectacular road trip together.]

REW