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I have to remember a lot.

Tax law, financial planning rules/products, Rich Habits research …

When I am interviewed by the media or preparing for a speaking engagement, I go through a process that enables me to recall the research data, studies, brain science and habit science that I want to share with my audience.

What is that process?

I call it the Cheat Sheet Process. Here’s how it works.

Fact Binder

I maintain something called a Fact Binder. It’s a six-inch binder filled with notes and supporting documentation, broken down by the following categories:

• Wealth/Poverty
• Successful People
• Brain Science
• Rich Habits-Related Studies
• Health/Exercise
• Economics/Financial Planning/Tax
• General Facts
• Words
• Quips/Jokes
• Grammar
• Quotes
• Phrases

Cheat Sheet

For each category above, I create something I call a Cheat Sheet. For example, my Cheat Sheet for Rich Habits runs 25 pages, front and back. Those 25 pages summarize the most important things I need to remember from the nearly 300 pages of information included in that particular subject category. Those 25 pages are a sort of a condensed version of the 300 pages of info.

Before any media interview or just prior to any speaking engagement, I spend about an hour reviewing my Rich Habits Cheat Sheet.

I do the same thing, once a week, for the Economics/Financial Planning/Tax category.

Practice perfects knowledge and skills

In my Rich Habits research, I learned that wealthy, successful people engage in daily practice to maintain and perfect their knowledge and skills. In this way, they become Virtuosos in whatever it is they do.

This Cheat Sheet Process is how I Practice. It is a tool I use to help me remember important information.

Success is a process.

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

It’s easy to lead when things are going well. But true leaders rise like a Phoenix from the fires of adversity.

In the movie Trading Places, Lewis Winthorpe III, an old money, wealthy commodities broker, with an Ivy League education played by Dan Aykroyd, is forced to swap places with a destitute, homeless conman, played by Eddie Murphy.

This forced adversity drags Winthorpe down into the abyss of poverty and hopelessness, nearly breaking him.

Only, he does not break. In fact, he resurrects himself, outsmarting the very individuals who forced adversity upon him.

Everyone, at some point in their lives, faces adversity.

Adversity is painful. It pushes you, challenges you, tests you.

No one likes going through adversity.

In fact, it stops most people in their tracks. That’s one of the reasons why there are so few successful people – most quit as soon as they realize the path to success is through adversity.

Your true potential, however, is only revealed through adversity. Adversity forces you to a higher level – higher level of focus, higher level of knowledge, higher level of skill.

Through adversity you acquire willpower, patience, street smarts, knowledge, foresight, insight, intuition, resilience, attention to detail and mental toughness.

Adversity also exposes your innate talents. Talents you never knew you had.

Adversity toughens you up. It makes you better. It transforms you into a true warrior – fearless and unafraid.

Adversity is the progenitor of growth. Without adversity you will never grow into the person you need to be in order to be a success.

Don’t run away from adversity. Run to it. Embrace it. Adversity is you friend, not your foe. It is the beacon that shines a light on the correct path – the path towards success.

For the self-made millionaires in my Rich Habits Study, adversity did not break them. They learned to survive until they thrived and they emerged from adversity better versions of themselves.

Your inner greatness and untapped potential is released, like a Phoenix, out of the fires of adversity.

Those who face adversity may enter the warrior zone as fragile caterpillars, but they emerge as magnificent butterflies.

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

According to my Rich Habits research data, successful people learn to control their emotions.

In fact, they get so good at controlling their emotions, it morphs into a habit.

Any because it is a habit, these successful individuals are unaffected by the emotions, the panics and the mass hysteria that sometimes infects society.

They refuse to panic, even when everyone around them is doing so.

How are they able to control their emotions and not panic?

Inside your brain is a region called the Dorsa Lateral Pre-Frontal Cortex. This brain region possesses a unique, very powerful army of billions of brain cells called Inhibatory Neurons.

These Inhibatory Neurons function as the braking system of the brain; capable of immediately shutting down any and all emotions and impulses, bursting forth from the emotional centers of the brain – the Amygdala (fear, panic, fight or flight) and the Nucleus Accumbens (impulses).

When you have the Rich Habit of controlling your emotions, you separate yourself from the masses of individuals who allow themselves to be controlled by their base emotions.

This emotional-control Rich Habit represents a huge competitive advantage – it stops you from making poor, harmful, emotion-based decisions and it allows you to make thoughtful, logical decisions.

Do you want to be like everybody else? Or do you want to live an exceptional, successful, happy and healthy life?

The choice is yours.

Don’t be part of the emotionally-driven, panicking herd. Separate yourself from them.

You do this by taking control of your emotions. Take control of your emotions, today!

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

An area of the brain called the Nucleus Accumbens, part of the ancient, old brain Limbic System, is responsible for most of your problems in life.

This part of the brain is why you have habits, why you cheat on your spouse or significant other, why you gamble and why you spend money during those late-night Home Shopping Network broadcasts. It’s basically the Devil that lives inside your brain, responsible for all of your bad habits and the stupid, spontaneous impulses that get you in trouble.

The good news is that while all of us have this Devil living inside our brains, we also have a very powerful Angel, ready, willing and able to crush that Devil to smithereens.

This Angel goes by the name Dorsa Lateral Pre-Frontal Cortex, part of the newest, most evolved part of the brain, known as the Cerebral Cortex.

The Dorsa Lateral Pre-Frontal Cortex is literally our Angel, Guardian and Savior.

The Dorsa Lateral derives its great powers from a unique breed of billions of brain cells called Inhibatory Neurons. These Inhibatory Neurons function as the braking system of the brain; capable of immediately shutting down any and all impulses bursting forth from the Nucleus Accumbens.

The Dorsa Lateral gives you the power to:

• Eliminate bad habits
• Adopt good habits
• Pursue LT Dreams/Goals
• Make sacrifices for the long-term, in the pursuit of those Dreams/Goals – aka Delayed Gratification.

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

My Rich Habits research has taken me down many rabbit holes. One such rabbit hole was understanding how the brain works, in order to better understand how habits can be formed, replaced or eliminated.

During sleep, the Hippocampus and Cerebral Cortex communicate with each other thousands of times during the night in an effort to find associations, in order to create memories. This is the memory formation process – how new memories are formed and stored. When the brain finds an old, related memory (existing, related association), it links the new memory to the old memory, making the new memory stick.

As a result of this back and forth process between the Hippocampus and Cerebral Cortex, the signals these two regions send to each other trip over old, existing memories.

This “tripping up process”, inadvertently lights up the neurons attached to our old, existing memories.

Because the brain thinks in pictures, when this memory formation process trips over neurons attached to old memories, we see pictures.

We call these pictures, “Dreams”.

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!

My mission is to share my unique Rich Habits research in order to add value to your life and help you realize increased wealth, superior health, abundant success, fulfillment & happiness. If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily Tips/Articles.  No one succeeds on their own. Thank You!