Mornings With Mike: A Daily 5-minute Dose Of Motivation & Accountability To Help You Create The Life You Want

With so many different ideas and strategies on what to do to achieve happiness, how do we know what to believe, what to listen to, and most importantly, what actually works?

If order to attract love, whether it's loving us, our ideas, products, services, whatever it may be, we must love ourselves first which begins when we forgive ourselves.

People judge each other, that's life, and I'm not asking that you and I change that, I'm just asking that we change how we judge others.

Life can get wild, chaotic, and complicated at times when our plates are too full so lightening the load becomes a must in order for us to keep moving forward.

Failing is part of the process of achieving success, so is being told no along the way since every no we get brings us one step closer to a yes.

When it comes to our dreams, our goals, and aspirations, we miss 100% of the shots we never take so let's take our shot at creating all it is we want for ourselves.

If you and I are to achieve our dreams, it is a must we take action knowing that resistance to take action will always be there.

I'm grateful for all of the valuable life lessons my dad taught me over the years (especially these 10) before losing him to cancer at the age of 57... Happy Fathers Day dad.

Decisions and moves we make will always be questioned by others and when they are, let's make it a point to always stay focused on who we are and what we want, nothing else.

We all have our own definition of what our own daring adventure looks like, let's focus on that and no one else's and live our own best daring adventure.

When it comes to our goals, the limits that stand in the way of us achieving any one of them are there because we've put them there.

We all want to be recognized for our wins and successes however, if we're waiting on others to acknowledge us for our achievements, we may be waiting forever.

We often hear the words "know your why" or "find your why" but why, really, it is important for us to know our why when it comes to our goals?

With so many moving parts in our daily lives, maintaining a healthy level of health, happiness, and fulfillment can be a challenge although these 5 steps will help.

We all want to be heard, seen, and recognized for who we are, what we do, and what we believe although expressing ourselves isn't always an easy thing to do.

While depression, stress, and anxiety aren't often openly discussed and talked about, these happen more often than we think and together, we can and will overcome them all.

We all will suffer one of two pains.. the pain of discipline (doing must we must to to have what we've decided we must have) or the pain of regret, the choice is ours to make.

The road to greatness, to all it is we want, dream of, and aspire to be can be a lonely one, but it's so much better than the crowded road to mediocrity.

A business failure, getting let go from a job, and going through a divorce all felt embarrassing to me until I realized three simple facts that helped me overcome my feeling of embarrassment.

Let's not let other people's opinions of what's possible and not possible cloud our own thoughts, dreams, and ideas of a better future for ourselves.