Every "yes" consumes a piece of your life. Every "no" protects one! Up until now, I''ve been teaching the components of something I call life architecture: Vision Identity Goals Deadlines Programming Environment Fitness & Health Relationships Etc... These are all building materials. This post introduces the governing principle. It answers the question: Why should I care about any of these things? Because... Life is finite. And every yes consumes a piece of it. That changes everything. Life...

… and every one after that.” Every one of us begins life in an environment we did not choose. We don’t choose our parents. We don’t choose our neighborhood. We don’t choose our school. We don’t choose the conversations that surround us during childhood. We inherit our first environment. For many people, that’s where the story ends. For me, it was where the story began. The Environment That Raised Me I grew up in a modest home in northwest Ohio. We weren’t wealthy. In fact, I didn’t even...

… The Visible Expression of Your Subconscious Programming… “Whether you repeatedly say ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ your mind begins building evidence to back that up.” In my last post, I explained that calories are simply energy. If you consume more energy than your body burns, the excess is stored as body fat lbs. It isn’t personal. It isn’t unfair. It’s physiology. But that explanation naturally leads to a bigger question. If the science is so straightforward, why do so many people struggle with...