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

Depending on how we define success, it's either very difficult or we're already successful. Here's the difference.

Regardless of what the extraordinary life looks like that we envision creating for ourselves, it all starts with these three basic steps.

With every level of success we achieve, there's a new devil waiting to challenge (prepare) us for that next level of success we seek.

Hitting rock bottom isn't a rite of passage to being successful contrary to what we hear and stories we're often told.

It isn't fear that keeps us from trying again after failing (fear and failure are both part of the recipe for success).. it's continuing to focus on the fear that paralyzes us from moving forward.

We have a major problem on our hands with society continuing to sell us on the idea that external success equals internal happiness - not true.

Preparing for where we've decided is a must we get to versus where we are now, is preparing for greatness.

Exercise, gratitude, reading, meditation, savings, flowers, donating, helping.... some effort is always better than no effort.

Leadership has little to do with a position or title and everything to do with the actions and examples we set.

Who cares what others are doing, what they're saying, where they're going, what they're creating. Continue being you.. do what you do.

I'm not a big Lebron James fan however, he did teach me a massive lesson on the importance of being mindful of what I focus on.

Contrary to what we see and here from the experts and gurus, there is more than one way to achieve the successes we desire.

More now than ever, we're being bombarded by all different types of distractions, all ready to rob us of the focus necessary to be successful.

It wasn't until I changed the stories I was telling myself that I stopped living my fears and began living my dreams.

I have big lofty goals I'm out to achieve before I'm boxed and buried but, if I had only 24 hours left, it's these simple things I'd focus on most.

There hasn't been a single success I've achieved where fear wasn't present. It isn't about being fearless, it's about feeling fear and stepping up anyways.

When it comes to success, thinking positive is a great start although that alone is not what will bring us the successes we seek.

Assuming anything versus taking the time to verify by asking is at the root of all disappointments and frustration.

Whatever success we seek, if we look close enough, we can have and experience those successes right now.

Past failures can set us back big-time and not from the failure itself (that's a learning opportunity) but from our inability to move past them.