“Unless you live consistent with your deepest values, you’ll achieve but still lack the ultimate fulfillment you truly deserve.”
– Anthony Robbins

“The secret to success and happiness is to translate your values into everyday life.”
– Hyrum Smith

Everybody has a set of deep core values that governs a person’s actions and a person can never ignore his core values. When confronted with emergencies, pressure, important decisions, or challenging situations, the actions he invariably takes will directly stem from his personal set of values.

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“Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are actually doing to achieve them.”
– Peter Drucker

“The ultimate goal of life is death — the experience of life is where the value is, not the results we achieve.”
– Anonymous

When people refer to productiveness, they usually refer to “busy-ness.” Positive productivity, on the other hand, is the result of doing what’s important and will hinge greatly on how well you adhere to this process of alignment. Alignment can also help you to discover not only what you need to do but also provide you with shortcuts as well.

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“Success is being at peace with yourself.”
– Anonymous

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
– Gerald Jampolsky

The earth was once thought to be the center of the universe.

As we all know today, this is not true. But for millions of years, only a trifle few would suspect any different. However, when Galileo proved Copernicus’ theory that the earth was indeed not at the center of the universe, the door that forever changed the world opened. In the same way, our perception of time has changed.

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After 12 long years of working seven days a week, I’ve made a decision. I’m taking tomorrow off.

Sounds strange? Well, I’ve had vacations. Many of them. And I’ve taken half-days off, here and there. Sometimes, I’ve even taken whole days off. But I would still check my email in the morning, or return to my computer at night.

Aside from my vacations, I’ve not taken an entire day off in over a decade. I mean, a full 24 hours without doing any work, including using the computer even if it’s to surf the web.

My wife and I are finally heeding to some very powerful advice from James Brausch about taking an extra day off to earn more money. In fact, James was pointing out a blog post by Terry Dean, a person I admire and follow closely.

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