Category Archives: Personal Development Advice

HOW TO FINISH WHAT YOU START

Promises. Promises. Does the very word make you uncomfortable? Conjure up images of promises forgotten, broken, or never fulfilled? If promises don’t make you uncomfortable, then you haven’t been trying hard enough. Or you haven’t been taking your promises seriously. …

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Everybody Does It (Do You?)

Your perspective, the way you see the world, can influence your language, the way you use words. But your language can also influence your perspective.

If you’d like to think bigger about who you are and what you offer the …

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I’m Not Your Boyfriend (And How to Deal with Client Breakups)

This issue came to light last week as I told my long-time landscaper that I would no longer use his services for one of my properties. Afterward, I told Petra that I had that horrible feeling of breaking up with a …

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Your Dreams Matter to the World

“What are my dreams to the world? Does it really matter if I keep thinking small?” It matters.

Thinking small is no longer an alternative. Fatalistic thinking has never worked. It’s killing us—our society, our environment, our dreams. I think …

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Your Personal Revolution

Revolution is more than just a political necessity. It is also a personal necessity.

Revolution is about one person at a time experiencing their own personal empowerment against an existing, deficient (small thinking) system.

The deficient system may be something …

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How Do You Know When You’re Ready?

This week I led a teleseminar about my 3-month elite mentoring program and I received the following question from a very eager but hesitant new business owner:

“I’m not sure if I’m ready. I just don’t know if I’m far enough along

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Public Speaking 101-303

I started my professional career as an actor. When I left acting and went into business, I often felt compelled to prove how smart I was and to demonstrate how much I knew.

The same thing was true when I first …

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Men and Their Eggs
(AKA: How to Be More Productive)

Almost every morning, I make a killer omelet for breakfast. It’s a thing of beauty, really.

Two eggs with a touch of milk, so much spinach that you’d think you’ve ruined it, a massive medley of grape and cherry tomatoes, …

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Will You Join Me In A Pledge?

I, Michael Port, hereby declare, that I will refrain from putting down or disparaging the work of others. I will only speak about what I stand for.

I will, however, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, destroy, blow up, and

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Be the Doer of Deeds

Promises. Promises. Does the very word make you uncomfortable? Conjure up images of promises forgotten, broken, or never fulfilled? If promises don’t make you uncomfortable, then you haven’t been trying hard enough. Or you haven’t been taking your promises seriously. …

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