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You’ve worked hard to make changes in your life, get your finances in order and pay down debt. It would be great to count on support from our friends and family, but that’s not always the case. So how do you keep your cool when someone you love challenges your choices? In this week’s episode of rich & REGULAR, we talk about how to stay calm in the moment and affirm the changes you’re making.  We’ve worked hard to bring about big change into our lives, and we’re thrilled to share all our progress with everyone we know. But we don’t always get a good reaction. When we make healthy changes for ourselves, others might act as though we are attacking or rejecting them for their previous choices or go out of their way to make us feel wrong about the progress we’ve made.  When that happens, it’s all too easy to become wrapped up in our interpretation of the events. Common courtesy goes out the window, which can turn a family disagreement into an actual fight.  Stay calm....

In the early days of IT Cosmetics, Jamie Kern Lima conducted business from her living room and hustled to create attention. She read SUCCESS and connected with our social media pages in an effort to raise her business’s profile. Over time, all of the striving and struggling paid off. IT Cosmetics grew and was eventually purchased by L’Oréal, which installed Kern Lima as the first female CEO of a brand in the company’s history. Our cover figure is the perfect example of entrepreneurial determination, and The Perseverance Issue of SUCCESS is devoted to all of you out there, like her, who are powering through challenges to reach your goals. Each story is meant to provide a lift to keep you going, or some insight that might provide the breakthrough you seek. It should come as no surprise that a magazine with a 124-year history like SUCCESS has exemplified traits of perseverance. The media landscape is much different than it was in 1897, and we continue to reshape our efforts to best ...

Making a big decision for your business can be scary. When you have several opportunities on the table, it’s hard to ignore five good options for one, golden opportunity. How do you know whether you’re making the right choice? Will there be a redo if things go badly? In this episode of Brilliant Thoughts , SUCCESS People Editor Tristan Ahumada talks to Mike Scioscia about making tough calls in life and business. Scioscia is a former Major League Baseball catcher who has won three World Series —two as a player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and one as manager of the Los Angeles Angels (formerly Anaheim Angels). He attributes his success to the strong relationships he built over the years, and of course, a willingness to make bold, impactful decisions. Turning down a baseball scholarship to go pro was one of the first. “I saw players better than me get these life-changing injuries where you can’t play anymore,” Scioscia says. “If that happened [to me], I felt like I could pick up the p...

Fail Forward Our instinct is to bury past failures in the back of our minds. But that misses an opportunity to grow. Here’s a journal prompt: What did you learn from your last big flop? Read: How to Create a Business Pitch Like a Baseball Pitcher Claim a Domain You’re bound to have a good idea just begging for a green light. Sometimes all it needs is momentum. Purchase a URL, then imagine the next dominoes that must fall. Read: How to Start a Business in a Day Throw the Heater Your 30-second elevator pitch about your business or hustle is akin to a baseball pitcher’s fastball. It’s the most important tool in your arsenal. Take time every day, even a minute, to practice it. Read: Building Wealth Starts with Courage Exercise Patience Tony Robbins often says that people can accomplish less in a year and more in a decade than they imagine. Create a long-term plan (financial or otherwise), but focus on daily growth. Read: Tony Robbins Will Show You the Surest Path to F...

Starting your business without prior experience or knowledge can lead to problems in establishing yourself as an equal contender in the market. Many of the most successful business entrepreneurs have worked hard and long to build their businesses and careers. Nevertheless, no matter who you are or what sort of business you are trying to kickstart, you’ll most likely realize that it is a learning process the whole way through.     Knowledge of Business Marketing Whether you’re selling a product or service, you’ll need to know, just as many of the top companies in today’s world, the best way to market your business. In today’s modern age of technology and increased use of digital media, businesses can target consumers using a variety of different platforms online. Social media can be extremely helpful in increasing your business’ exposure to consumers and can also be one of the least expensive ways of doing so.     How do you push your branding offline? Go even...

As we know, motive is of major importance in all human relationships. Let’s then consider the benefits you may receive by applying the Golden Rule and determine how many of the nine basic motives are acted upon in applying this rule: 1. The motive of love This, the greatest of all the emotions, is founded on the Golden Rule spirit that inspires us to put aside selfishness, greed and envy and to relate ourselves to others as if we were in their place. The motive of love, expressed through the Golden Rule, enables us to comply freely with that age-old admonition to “love thy neighbor as thyself.” It brings us to a full recognition of the oneness of humankind, in which anything that damages our neighbors damages us too.  Let us, therefore, apply the Golden Rule in all relationships as a practical means of demonstrating the spirit of humanity. This is the greatest of all motives for applying this profound rule. 2. The profit motive This is a sound and universal motive but one that...

As entrepreneurs, it’s easy to get trapped in the hustle cycle: work hard, stress, achieve a goal, immediately set a new one. We rarely sit back and consider what we are working toward or when we will stop. On this week’s episode of SUCCESS Line I talk to Justine, a young Australian entrepreneur who is stuck in this very cycle. She runs a boutique digital branding agency and is a quintessential hustler; she is hard on herself and never takes the time to slow down and celebrate her wins.  So how does an entrepreneur like Justine know when she’s “made it?” At what point does she grant herself the grace to slow down? Everyone’s final destination is different, but I have found a tactical way to more precisely identify where you are trying to go. With our clients at Brand Builders Group , we start with money. Although it’s true that money isn’t the end-all be-all, it is a concrete mechanism that we can all understand and one that helps us cement our goals.  If you’ve ever won...

Learning how to write great copy can be an excellent career move. You can make a good amount of money while flexing your creative muscles and working in a flexible setting. The best part: You also don’t need any formal education. In fact, some of the most sought after and highest-paid copywriters in the world never took a writing class in their life and clear six figures a year. Bonus: If you want to learn how to write amazing content like a six figure copywriter, download my FREE Ultimate Guide to Content In this post, we’ll show you everything you need to get started as a copywriter — even if you don’t have any experience. What is a copywriter and what do they do? A copywriter is anyone who is paid to write content that entices readers to take action — in other words, copywriters write the words used for marketing products and/or services. This includes things like: Sales pages Email funnels Landing pages Blog posts/articles Social media posts White papers Case studies...

No one ever said being an entrepreneur was easy. And if they did, they were lying and/or selling something. It comes with long hours, unexpected obstacles, and skeptical friends and relatives. However, it shouldn’t be completely joyless either. Network marketer and keynote speaker Emily Vavra spent so much time comparing herself to other people in the early days of building her business that she almost missed the exciting parts.  Emily learned to cherish the progress she was making every day, putting routines in place to remind herself to slow down and appreciate how far she’d come.  “I thought success has to be painful,” she says. “Hustle culture tells us that—when in reality, if you have this harmony in your day, and you let go and remember to breathe, you can enjoy the entire process.” In this episode of SUCCESS Stories , Emily tells Chief Storytelling Officer Kindra Hall why she stopped measuring herself against other people, the morning and night routines that set h...

Your Next Big Idea Improve Your Creativity and Problem-Solving By Samuel Sanders Do you ever wonder how some people are just naturally creative? If you’ve ever been jealous of these folks, Samuel Sanders’ Your Next Big Idea should be your next read. In the book, he takes readers through strategies that boost creativity and offer new ways to look at things focusing on innovation, creativity, problem-solving and ideation. These tools can be helpful beyond just your next big business venture, Sanders advises. “When you see people come up with great business or life ideas, you may chalk it up to luck or natural creativity,” Sanders writes, “[But] there’s a process to coming up with ideas that are beneficial to yourself and society.” (May; Heard Publishing; $15) Anxiety at Work 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done By Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton We all know the feeling: You have so much on your plate and are too afraid to as...

Competition may bring a fair amount of excitement and drive to your life and your relationship. Although playfully keeping track of who does the dishes each night or who can fold the laundry the fastest can be healthy fun, allowing it to overshadow every aspect of your life can be detrimental.  Listen to this week’s episode of rich & REGULAR on Competitiveness in Relationships and read the tips below to find out how to work with your significant other instead of against them.  Competition is in your biology. Stemming from the desire to pass our genes down to the next generation, competition can be seen throughout the animal kingdom and can help explain all kinds of weird behavior.  Our culture reinforces competitive beliefs through business, sports and even in our families, where we may feel like we have to compete with a sibling to earn a parent’s praise or attention. As we become adults, competitiveness becomes ingrained, and we can start to see everything as ...

I wrote my NYT bestselling book I Will Teach You To Be Rich to help people learn to live rich lives. But sometimes, teaching people how to get rich gets me a bad rap. I’ve been told, “you just want to make money.” Or “money isn’t everything.” And these people do have a point. But actually, I’d prefer to be asked WHY I teach people to be rich. Because being rich isn’t just about amassing large amounts of cash — it’s about what you want your life to look like.  When you’re thinking about your financial future, it’s important to ask yourself: why do I want to be rich? Take a second and think about it. Do you want to have a luxurious lifestyle? Do you want to travel? To eat at nice restaurants? To break free from your 9-5 job? I believe it’s really important to consciously think about why you want to be rich. If you don’t, it’s easy to get caught up in a race to get more and more money without ever knowing why. What are you working towards? Bonus: After you think about why you...

We know that prevention is the most effective way to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It’s why we wear seatbelts, visit the doctor for checkups and exercise. But prevention is just as important for our financial well-being too. Learning how to manage your finances before money mistakes happen can help you avoid easy-to-make slip-ups like dings to your credit score or an overdrawn bank account. Recent high school and college graduates have a unique—possibly once-in-a-lifetime—opportunity to set long-range monetary goals and develop lifelong healthy financial habits that impact everything from the ability to qualify for a mortgage to being able to afford big-ticket items like furniture or vacations. Whether you graduated debt-free or with a mountain of student loans, designing a plan to eliminate debt and prevent overspending while proactively stashing away money for the future will help you avoid the financial fatigue and stress that plague many working adults. Following a financial inde...

Why do some entrepreneurs get more opportunities than others? Is it because their business makes more money, or is there a secret the typical person isn’t aware of? Glenn Sanford, founder of eXp Realty, president of eXp World Holdings and CEO of SUCCESS Enterprises, would rephrase that question. Instead of conflating success with money, he would ask budding entrepreneurs about their relationships. So here’s the new question: Are you using relationships to grow your business or your business to grow relationships? Most people do the first option, but that’s the hardest way to meet people and get opportunities. Using your business to grow your network is more efficient. In this episode of Brilliant Thoughts , SUCCESS People Editor Tristan Ahumada talks to Sanford about how to get amazing opportunities. Luck plays a small role, but most things don’t happen by accident. Sanford didn’t get the opportunity to buy SUCCESS Magazine or Virbela, the virtual reality platform, by chance. Relati...

With his team down to their last out in the deciding game of the 2012 World Series, and trailing by a run, Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera stepped into the batter’s box at Comerica Park to face pitcher Sergio Romo. The signature pitch of the San Francisco Giants reliever was a slider, a sweeping breaking ball that moved from his right to left like a darting frisbee. Romo began the at-bat by throwing five straight sliders to Cabrera, an unusual sequence for most pitchers, but not Romo, who threw the pitch 77 percent of the time that season. The fifth slider started outside and broke away for a ball, evening the count at two balls and two strikes. Watching from the bench, rookie San Francisco catcher Curt Casali noticed that Cabrera took the pitch with little interest in swinging.  “I swear, I was like, Just throw a fastball down the middle and he’s going to take it ,” Casali says now, looking back at one of the most memorable pitch sequences of his career. “When he didn’t s...