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Your Contingencies Planning for the Unexpected

Your Contingencies: Planning for the Unexpected

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Your Contingencies Planning for the Unexpected

Life rarely unfolds exactly as planned. Even the most thoughtful goals and carefully aligned plans will be tested by unexpected events, which is why you’ll want to have contingencies in place. That’s what we talk about on Episode 1191 of The BIGG Success Show Podcast. Click the player to listen now, or read the summary below.

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The Fable of the Farmer and His Donkey

Once upon a time, there lived a farmer and his donkey. One day, that ol’ donkey fell into a well. He cried and cried and cried, while the farmer tried and tried and tried to decide what to do. Finally, he decided the donkey was too old to be of any use anyway. Besides, the well was dry; it just needed to be sealed up so nothing else could fall into it. The farmer recruited his neighbors to help him. They picked up their shovels and started throwing dirt into the well.

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7 Steps to Complain Effectively (and Gain 10 Hours a Month)

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Complain effectively and issues get resolved. Plus, research shows it will free up 10 hours a month of your time.

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We discussed complaining on The BIGG Success Show today. Here’s a summary of that discussion.

This show was inspired by an article on Harvard Business Review by Peter Bregman. He does an excellent job showcasing the reasons for and results of complaining.

The two of us fight the same urge to complain as everyone else. So we designed this episode as a reminder to us. We hope it helps you as well.

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The Most Important Success Habit

The Most Important Success Habit

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The Most Important Success Habit

We know there are certain habits that lead to success, but there is just one that determines the difference between success and failure.

Click the player to listen to this episode of The BIGG Success Show Podcast. Below is a summary.

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Way back in 1940, Albert E.N. Gray delivered an inspirational speech at the annual convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters (NALU). Gray was an official of the Prudential Insurance Company of America and a highly sought after speaker.

His speech, The Common Denominator of Success, was met with such overwhelming enthusiasm that it was turned into a pamphlet.

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When SMART Goals Get You Stuck

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SMART goals are important to set, but for entrepreneurs, there’s a different approach to goal-setting that alleviates some of the pressure.

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Our discussion today is about a different way of looking at goals that is very complimentary to our way of looking at goals for entrepreneurs. Click the player to listen to The BIGG Success Show podcast. Here is a summary…

We saw a great article over at the online magazine for swimmers called Swim Swam. It’s a goal setting strategy to use if you are struggling with hard goals. The author, Olivier Poirier-Leroy,  is a former national-level swimmer who says there is a problem with traditional goal-setting . The process of trying to accomplish the goal gets left out, and the pressure to achieve a goal can cause people to fail.

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4 Steps to Find Transformational Opportunities

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With change happening faster than ever, you need to be prepared to capitalize on it. We share 4 steps to find transformational opportunities.

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Click the player to listen to this episode of The BIGG Success Show Podcast. Below is a summary of our discussion.

We saw an article that asserted that change is occurring a million times faster than the average person’s ability to handle it. Sure seems like it! A lot of times these changes are transformational.

In a post for The Small Business Advocate, author and futurist Dan Burrus said:

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