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

Holding onto fear, anger, and resentment from past failures and let-downs keeps us walking backwards, missing out on all that's in front of us.

Confidence isn't a nice to have, it's a must have if we're to successfully achieve our goals since success, all success, requires us believing in ourselves, our abilities, and efforts.

Patience is not only a virtue, it's an absolute must if we are to go the distance and achieve all of our dreams, goals, and aspirations.

After nearly two decades of helping clients lose weight, there are certain patterns (three) I've noticed that those who successfully lose weight follow time and time again.

A mishap during one of my client coaching sessions led to these two major realizations, further supporting the notion that life continues to happen for us, not to us.

The messages we offer our children or in my case, my unborn child, are often the same guiding principles we know are right for us to follow and live by as well.

No one has life figured out, we're all trying to figure it out as we go and together, we will figure it out and win together.

To achieve our goals requires that we get uncomfortable and welcome the associated discomfort along the way that helps us grow and ultimately succeed.

The number one thing that stands in our way of creating all it is we want for ourselves is fear, which we create, which means we can also destroy.

When it comes to our goals and efforts to achieve them, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Reflecting back on where we've been, what we've done, what we've gone through allows us to assess the progress we've made and where we're headed.

A recent episode of fear and doubt related to my goals attempted to throw me off track but focusing on two specific words won the day for me.

Declaring "someday" as our timeline for when we will achieve and realize all of our goals, dreams, and aspirations is a losing strategy.

Our cell phones are a major distraction when it comes to us being productive however the flip phone method will help us put a stop to that.

As human beings, we all crave significance which can be so easily achieved by just being ourselves.

When it comes to our goals, let's not allow what we don't have get in the way of doing what we must do, to have what we've decided we must have.

Whatever goals we're out to achieve, it's important for us to understand that motivation doesn't last on it's own, it's up to us to keep stoking our motivational fire every single day.

Producing 400 daily podcast episodes has taught me more than just how to create a successful podcast, it's taught me how to live a meaningful, fulfilling life along the way.

Whether we're on track or not with our 2019 goals, now's the time to decide whether or not to continue pursuing them.

Next time you find yourself in a slump, use these three questions to help you get out of it immediately and begin moving forward once again.