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You know the truth about weight loss, right? Burn more calories than you consume. Our culture has developed a million strategies and gimmicks, but none that can shortcut…burning more calories than you consume. So, how do you find a business idea that fits who you are and what the marketplace needs and will pay for? [...]

For the next six days, variations of offering ‘Happy New Year!’ will be passed around somewhere around a billion times. It’s a simple well-wish and nice gesture. But words matter. We rise or fall by them and the meaning behind them. So with our thought and intent subconsciously bent on having a ‘happy’ New Year [...]

You want better for yourself and your life, and better FROM yourself to give to others. So you read self-help books and blogs and magazines and articles, you listen to podcasts and watch videos…you may even attend seminars and conferences. Chances are, maybe you haven’t changed much. And you blame yourself. Like you, I’m always [...]

Want the secret to finding time for the important things in your life that consistently get overtaken by all the urgent things? Get selfish. Read on… People come into Free Agent Academy because they want and believe in something better for their lives. Viable dreams and convictions and values lead them here. The #1 reason [...]

Take a top expert in a field and lay down the gauntlet…ask them to give their top 5 keys for success in their area of expertise. If you’re on deck to step up and really boil it down, it’s a daunting request. *In the for-what-it’s-worth category, this is my 500th blog here at Free Agent [...]

An air-traffic controller spends all day monitoring air crafts. I spend most days monitoring people striving for big life change.  When it all boils down to it, what do I see as the #1 “Law” of Change? Doing the work: Doing a LOT of work. Doing more work than you’re used to. Doing smarter work – not [...]

How would you like Dan Miller’s latest, greatest wisdom and insight on what it takes to transition from traditional employment to self-employment? And an autographed, hardback of his newest book ‘Wisdom Meets Passion’? Dan Miller, bestselling author of the career classic ‘48 Days To The Work You Love‘ book. Dave Ramsey’s career and work go-to [...]

You’re desperately trying and wanting to believe you can be more and do more and achieve more. But chances are you’re utterly alone and unsupported. You have zero real support in going after something bigger and better in your life. It’s not that you don’t have people who love and care about you and think [...]

A couple days ago I did my daily headlines check to see if anything really important was happening. Not much to report there. But I did happen to see a headline letting us know some Hollywood starlet had shed 60 lbs. Again. Normally it wouldn’t have even registered. However, I’m in the midst of a [...]

I’m admittedly TOO ‘purpose’ focused. Not only is my vocational life devoted to helping people discover and work in their purpose, but everything I do has to have a purpose. To the point my kids and friends sometimes wish I’d just chill the hell out and have some fun. Not make everything a teaching moment. [...]

Something interesting happens in your brain when you hear things like: Close your eyes. Envision yourself in a big room. Dark tapestries drape the walls, it’s dusk outside and there is one candle in the middle of this vast room… OR Once, long ago in a small mountain town, an event occurred that forever altered [...]

I sent out our first announcement about the new membership platform where you get access to…everything. Our entire Free Agent Academy membership and courses For $5. For a whole month if you register by 3pm Mountain Time on Friday. I sat under a tree by the cabin and walked through it. 22 new members already. [...]

Today we discussed these two posts, both of which came as a result of a new member sharing his heart and struggle: I’ll never truly learn who you were made to be We want results, but how do we deal with discouragement? Plus I gave a teaser on our new membership platform which will launch [...]

ass noun 1. a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus,  related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden. Did you get that? A domesticated mammal used chiefly as a beast of burden. Here in Rockies where the ‘West was won’ you’ll find many photos of donkeys with burdens of heavy supplies on their backs. You’ll also see many horses. There are many stories of horses, even memorials. Now, [...]

I do a lot of running and 99% of it is off-road  Some on national forest roads up here in Pikes Peak National Forest, much on various trails, a good bit on literal elk trails and occasionally just through the pathless forest or meadows. You’d think I’d have tons of stories to tell about wildlife sightings and encounters [...]