I’ve always felt to know the true measure of a man, audit how his wife and kids and doing.

As a listener of The Ziglar Show I know you are a more “aspiring” person than the norm, as are our other listeners.

“Blessings” is right there with the word “success” as far as having a lot of baggage connected to it.

This is about how you are arranging your life.

A key to a great story plot or comedy routine is to take people along a predictive path and then disrupt it.

Well, this is interesting. In the episode I play a clip from Zig Ziglar on the power of words we speak with and about other people.

Even if they are listening, are they really hearing?

We generally approach conversations like we approach walking, you just do it.

Boom. You wake in the morning and often the first, conscious thought is a worry, concern or anxiety. It sounds negative, but it may just be how our minds work, to first deal with any threat. But it’s not an optimal way to start the day and if we hold on to the worry it will likely taint the whole day. Neil Pasricha’s tactic is to take that thought captive in the first seconds of his day, and “let it go”. He writes it down in his journal to get it out of his head. Then he also writes down something he is grateful for and what he will focus on. He calls it his Two Minute Morning and actually sells a journal by that name that is a bestseller. Neil was my guest in show 727 where the topic was, quit living your fragile life. I encourage you to visit Neil.blog and subscribe to his podcast, 3 books with Neil Pasricha. And you can get his just released new book, “You Are Awesome” at neil.blog or wherever you buy books. This is our habits episode and it was the mental spoke where he shared his waking routine that kick-starts his day. Hear more about it and his habits in the other spokes on the Ziglar Wheel of Life, in this show.

You daily, if not hourly, speak a series of words that take away your personal power.

We live in a time of more conveniences, automation, safety, knowledge, and creature comforts than ever.

As we continue to breach the hard questions, this one is a doozy that massively affects our relationships.

What do you do to keep your mental edge sharp?

That show title is a volatile question that will ultimately shape your life trajectory.

“The worst time to think about the thing you are going to say is in the moment you are saying it”

Do you have a product or service? Are you good at selling it?

We all know having a plan is the most secure way to ensure something happens.

Business and making money and keeping up with the demands of work tend to take priority in our lives, and to a great degree those pursuits are have-to issues.

Is it really a choice? Can you really believe that?

Truthfully, don’t you assume people who are the best at what they do were just naturals at it, to some degree? Yet we have so many stories of people who had no natural ability and performed at a very low level, but trained themselves up into a level of mastery. In a stark example we have James Earl Jones, with one of the most recognizable voices in the world, who was almost mute as a child for eight years, thanks to a severe stutter. Not that drastic, but in this show I bring you a message from Zig Ziglar explaining his desire to enter sales solely due to a financial incentive, and his following two years of languishing as a very poor salesman. It’s an entertaining story of course, but it really puts into perspective the reality that often the masters did not start off with an advantage. They simply applied themselves, learned and trained. Which opens the doors for you to pursue even those things that don’t come naturally. 

I discovered a really valuable addition to the Habits show and the Ziglar wheel of life, courtesy of a small revelation and then an answer from Brian Dixon.

You have a daily routine. Everyone does. Every day you generally go about the same tasks and functions.

Your day, your life, is full of projects to be done. From home and family to work and business.

I don’t like titles claiming to be the end-all or holy grail for anything. But I believe this claim to be irrefutable.

This is a special episode on habits. For almost two years now I’ve had every single guest on the Ziglar Show, comprised of today’s most successful influencers in personal development, share their personal habits for success.