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Spark of Awesomeness Report 003

2015-03-26T06:59:00.001-04:00

Spark of Awesomeness Report 003 is here! I want to recognize a few of you this week for the things you have accomplished of sheer awesomeness!

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March 26, 2015 at 06:51AM

Grant R. Nieddu

Chief Spark Instigator

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Dreamers are the Saviors of the World

2015-03-23T10:05:00.001-04:00

Dreamers are the Saviors of the World - James Allen - As a Man Thinketh - Free Download - You will be as ... as great as your dominant aspiration.

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March 23, 2015 at 09:59AM

Grant R. Nieddu

Chief Spark Instigator

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The Spark of Awesomeness Report 001

2015-03-11T20:30:00.001-04:00

The Spark of Awesomeness Report 001 is here to brag on all the good spark citizens are doing. They are making a huge impact in their fields and you get hear about them! Friend them. Ask them about what they are achieving. Let us know how we can help you!

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March 11, 2015 at 08:05PM

Grant R. Nieddu

Chief Spark Instigator

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Strategy for Making the Most of Your Day?

2015-02-17T10:41:00.001-05:00

Strategy for Making the Most of Your Day?

A good friend asked me the other day if I had a strategy for making the most of my day. Of course I do! Here is my Spark Strategy for daily success.

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He Saved Us $3.3 Billion. Who is He?

2015-02-09T08:37:00.001-05:00

He Saved Us $3.3 Billion. Who is He?

A single man with a vision took a project that cost NASA $3.6 billion dollars and he did it for $30 million. And he pushed his industry forward. And he has done the same in other industries. And few still know his name.

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The Law of Reciprocity Works for You from Brian Tracy

2015-02-06T09:29:00.001-05:00

The Law of Reciprocity Works for You from Brian Tracy

How can you work with this human nature Law of Reciprocity to move your goals forward as well as create a positive atmosphere between you and your client?

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Treasure Hunting: You’re Doing It Wrong

2015-01-30T08:25:00.001-05:00

Treasure Hunting: You’re Doing It Wrong

The treasure hunters of life succeed at the launch. They just fail at sustaining the new level attained by the launch.

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The Best Place to Do Your Work Is?

2015-01-29T10:02:00.001-05:00

The Best Place to Do Your Work Is?

Every guru from Steven Pressfield (in his book, 'Do the Work') to Jon Acuff's recent post about the myth of the writer's cabin tell us the secret: Freakin' do the work already.

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How to Read a Book in One Sitting

2015-01-26T13:18:00.001-05:00

How to Read a Book in One Sitting

I just read an entire book this morning. Not to brag, but that isn’t bad. (My goal is one a week.) There are three reasons I was able to read an entire book in a single morning.

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Avoiding Goal Setting

2015-01-23T09:23:00.001-05:00

Avoiding Goal Setting

Regardless of my tools or the infinite number of other tools available, people still resist goals. Why are humans so bad at goals and goal setting? Avoiding goal-setting is avoiding the very success you seek.

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Goal-Setting Is Unselfish

2015-01-21T09:40:00.001-05:00

Goal-Setting Is Unselfish

The #solutions the world needs will only come when you set BIG #GOALS. #sparkgoals2015

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The Snarky Letter I Wrote to Tell Off Lawyers and Why I Didn’t Send It

2015-01-08T10:08:00.001-05:00

The Snarky Letter I Wrote to Tell Off Lawyers and Why I Didn’t Send It

Everyone wants to tell off lawyers. I certainly do. So, when I got a letter from GettyImages’s legal team telling me to take down a photo, I was pissed. Would I comply? Of course I would! I’ve got no legal budget. Regardless, I thought I would take the time to take a jab at them. […]

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Quit Training…and FIGHT

2015-01-07T07:51:00.001-05:00

Quit Training…and FIGHT

I am missing my routine, sick, and need to sleep. But routine and sleep are training for war. This is war. I need to put aside the training and fight.

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Finish This Sentence: In 2014 My Biggest Accomplishment Was…

2014-12-30T09:16:00.001-05:00

Finish This Sentence: In 2014 My Biggest Accomplishment Was…

Tell us about your biggest challenge, your journey to overcoming it, or simply something that you are most happy about having overcoming. A.) Its cathartic. B.) Having a success or two under your belt sets a very positive tone for tackling even bigger goals in 2015.

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Practice Any Art by Kurt Vonnegut

2014-12-29T14:17:00.001-05:00

Practice Any Art by Kurt Vonnegut

"Practice any art ... to experience becoming." by Kurt Vonnegut

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The 7 Top Goal Setting Lessons from Interstellar

2014-11-28T05:13:00.001-05:00

The 7 Top Goal Setting Lessons from Interstellar

Something that blew me away last week was that we watched the movie Interstellar. As a result, today we've got The Top Seven Spark Goal-Setting Lessons from the movie Interstellar. If you have not seen this, go see it. It's a mind blow.

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3 Things I Learned at My Florida Polytechnic University Talk

2014-11-26T09:58:00.001-05:00

3 Things I Learned at My Florida Polytechnic University Talk

An invite from a friend, Doctor Joe Childs, to speak with his Entrepreneurship MBS students from Florida Poly led to some awesome learning. That is the bonus of being able to speak with higher academic institutions; you encounter some of the most intelligent people around.

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Reminder: Thoughts Are Things

2014-11-25T09:29:00.001-05:00

Reminder: Thoughts Are Things

Imagine if we simply reversed this process? Take the same steps and replace the negative thought with a positive one. Then the unconscious mind becomes a success-seeking machine. Image: How Richard Branson Things

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Meditation is Still Under-Used

2014-11-07T09:06:00.001-05:00

Meditation is Still Under-Used

If you have a mission, a purpose that drives you, I recommend that you to return to using the practice of using meditation.

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Stop Whining and Get Back to Work

2014-11-06T08:48:00.001-05:00

Stop Whining and Get Back to Work

The state in which you truly spark your life and others is one where you stop looking for the easy path, you stop expecting the world to just hand you the awards you desire, and you get back to the work that produces the goodness you seek.

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Success-Focus vs Mastery-Focus

2014-10-31T09:10:00.001-04:00

Success-Focus vs Mastery-Focus

Another day as a trainer; another encounter with a nihilistic, fatalistic Gen-Y-er at the end of his rope. That guy is now a friend, partner, and fellow Spark Samurai.

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Lessons on Mission from a Conqueror

2014-10-30T11:29:00.001-04:00

Lessons on Mission from a Conqueror

Trust a spark samurai, a day conqueror, to meditate on an issue long enough to see through the superficial explanations to eventually cut right to the real issue. JD finally cut to the bone.

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Goal-Setting Workshop 2015

2014-09-20T05:11:00.001-04:00

Tired of making New Year's Resolutions and seeing them go nowhere? Sick of achieving your goals all alone? Victory 2015 has been shaped to help you shape GOALS (not resolutions) and do it with others who can hold you accountable to achieving your dreams.

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Shooting Training Videos

2014-09-19T05:28:00.001-04:00

Day in the Life: The goal of the project you are about to glimpse is to do introductory videos to goal-setting. It is for the Goal-Setting Foundations course, to watch before you approach goal-setting. I will give it away for free once its done.

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Exclusive Contest Worth $75

2014-09-18T05:19:00.001-04:00

This is going to be a killer event with guided goal-setting, trainers to discuss the 4 main areas of the Total Life Experience, productive homework, networking with other ambitious people like yourself and more.

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