IN THE GREEN ROOM WITH
BRYAN FRANKLIN
  • Question: Why Do I Feel More Alive When Seeking Than When Having What I Want?
    23 days ago

    “Curious about your thoughts on this one: Why do I feel more alive when seeking then when having the experience I want? Hope you had a killer week.”

    The “Alive” You Are Feeling Is Not The Feeling Of Life

    It is the feeling of adrenaline. It is the feeling generated by your body when you are running from death. Or running from life. The feeling of “alive” can only be felt in the moments when you are the most still. In those moments, where nothing is moving, you can feel the subtle turning over of your cells’ nuclei, moving and rebirthing with an internal energy. That is life. It can be felt in the space between breaths.

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  • Co-Founder’s Dilemma: When Opinions Are Too Close Or Too Far Apart
    31 days ago

    Co-founders have a dilemma. If their opinions are to similar, then there is no reason for the partnership. If they are too far apart, then the differences between the founders lead to a death spiral. How do you balance ‘just the right amount’ of differences?

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  • How To Go From Leading 1:1 To Leading A Movement
    47 days ago

    Jena LaFlamme talks about her journey and what it takes to summon the confidence to create amazing group experiences and position herself as a leader of a movement – in this case the Pleasurable Weight Loss movement! We specifically focus on the challenge of turning a reactive art (coaching, consulting, etc. 1:1) into a creative art (coming up with content for books, workshops, teleseminars, and programs) with ease and mastery.

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  • 4 Billionaires and 35 Millionaires Can’t Be Wrong
    188 days ago

    There are some basic ways of thinking – ways to approach your life – that can make the difference between creating the life you want and logging years of struggle. And they’re not well known. In fact, most of us have been specifically educated in the opposite way of thinking. In this candid conversation with Jennifer, Michael, and myself, we explore what we can do now to set ourselves on the right path, learning from the people who are self-made, self-educated, and self-satisfied.

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  • TEDx Talk: The Most Dangerous Question On Earth
    267 days ago

    This event was extraordinary, and I am humbled and grateful to count myself among the contributors. – the organizers did a great job of attracting speakers and audience members on the front lines of evolving our cultural and financial memes.

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  • Creativity Is Your Birthright. The Four Conditions For Brilliance
    274 days ago

    Creativity is an emergent property that arises from specific conditions, and if those conditions are present and are not at risk of degrading, every person will be able to tap into creative genius. People who are considered to be more creative are those that are more able to self-generate these specific conditions. The ‘zone’ is a byproduct of these four conditions.

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  • The Most Dangerous Question On Earth
    297 days ago

    If you had 18 minutes to convince God that humanity had a hope in hell of surviving the next 100 years, what would you tell her?

    That is exactly the question that me and 17 other extraordinary thought leaders are going to be answering at TEDxSinCity in Las Vegas on 14 May 2011.

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  • Three Types Of Earners (Which Are You?)
    411 days ago

    Some things surprised us about this call. First off, we had to get more lines because there were over 730 people registered – which felt really good. But what really amazed both Jonathan and I is that an hour into the call, less than 2% of the listeners had dropped off. That NEVER happens. I think it was so engaging because Jonathan and I have a really good rapport with each other and we just spoke naturally to each other about things that are important to us. Go ahead and listen and tell me what you think by commenting here!

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  • How Did My Mom (High School Drop Out) Out Earn My Dad (Harvard MBA) By 2x to 3x?
    434 days ago

    I just did an beautiful teleseminar with wellness expert Jena La Flamme (www.jenawellness.com) where we uncovered how to use the powerful traits of femininity to drive business success. The thank-you’s are pouring in already. Listen to the recording below: It sounds like two powerful men having a blast talking about how to help people be more successful in their lives.

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  • The Secret About The Secret
    439 days ago

    I’m Good At Attracting Some Things In My Life, But Others Continue To Elude Me… What Can I Do To Finally Attract Wealth And Abundance In My Life?

    When it comes to the law of attraction, the difference between
    creating the life you want (as if by magic) and just staring at a
    vision board and having nothing change is…

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  • What We’ve Learned From The World’s Wealthiest And Most Abundant People
    439 days ago

    I just did an action-packed teleseminar with success coach and lifestyle extraordinaire Bruce Muzik. The thank-you’s are pouring in already. Listen to the recording below: It sounds like two powerful men having a blast talking about how to help people be more successful in their lives.

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  • What Are Your $10,000 Ideas?
    461 days ago

    As you know, its really important to Jennifer and me that everyone that attends our events has a really positive experience and learns a lot. We are always looking for new ways of thinking about and talking about an entrepreneur’s most important issues.

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  • Another Meeting About Nothing
    475 days ago

    I judge how well a meeting goes by what happens AFTER the meeting.  Was a different path or future created because we spent time together?  Just like with filtering your tasks, you can filter your meetings based on your thematic goal as well.

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  • How To Fold Time And Space – The Entrepreneur’s Magic Wand
    475 days ago

    When you are running a business of any size, there is more to do than you have time for. I sometimes tell first-time CEOs to make a list of everything that absolutely MUST get done. Then notice that there is so much on that list that it can’t possibly all get done. The difference between a successful company and a failed one can be a matter of which “absolutely essential” things the CEO let slip through the cracks, and which actually got done. When you run your own business, prioritization can be a joke.

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  • What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You About Being A CEO
    496 days ago

    Where does conventional wisdom break down, and why? What do most people from the outside of the job think is right that turns out to be wrong from the inside of the job?

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  • Spencer broke his arm in two places! But that wasn’t the worst part…
    499 days ago

    Spencer’s a really tough kid. Normal bumps and bruises that might send a normal kid wailing often are laughed off with a shrug. One time he fell off his new bike and scraped up his knee. He jumped up and looked at me and said, “That was funny! My new bike doesn’t know how to steer!”

    So I knew right away this was pretty serious. 90 minutes later we are at the Emergency Room, and Spencer is asking about the function of everything in sight.

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  • How To Grow Your Business In A Down Economy
    499 days ago

    Luxuries and “nice-to-haves” are the first to go when belts are tight. If you find that its more difficult to get and keep business in these times, then this could be the most important 15 minutes of your year.

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  • Bill Gates, Gil Friend: If You Can Show Me The Business Case, Its Too Late
    505 days ago

    Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic says, “We are currently consuming the resources of 1.3 to 1.5 planets.” Sustainability literally means just that. The ability for us to sustain ourselves. Companies and governments have been prioritizing their own sustainability since time began.

    The time is now to recognize that resource consumption is the X-factor that will determine who will survive the next epoch of capital evolution. We must focus on it now, simply because we must. The alternative is the inability to continue existence as corporations, as nations, and as individuals.

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  • Chip Conley on Our Dying Economy And What To Do About It
    514 days ago

    No country in the world is more enamored with its sense of manifest destiny and individual liberty than the United States, but our forefathers – whether they were venturing west through the wilderness or whether they were fighting the British – truly valued the essential nature of communal participation in our democratic society (and Alexis deTocqueville wrote quite a book observing this).

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  • Are You Making The Most Common Niche Picking Mistake?
    521 days ago

    A great opportunity to test how you think about important business situations: This is an email exchange between myself and someone who tracked me down after hearing me speak at Burning Man (Entheon Lecture Series). (I got his permission before posting this – and I’ve removed references to his location and his name)

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  • Life Is A Game Of Inches
    546 days ago

    Some of you know this Al Pacino clip quite well! I’m reminded of it every time I interact with someone who is gripping on the the hope of a big win, while letting the “inches that are all around us” slip by.

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  • *You are working with too many damn variables!*
    571 days ago

    There are no points for originality in business.

    Money you make doing the same thing that other people do spends just as well as money you make trying something new. Replicate other people’s working businesses. If it’s not working, replicate it more closely and carefully.

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