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January 9, 2014 By Andy Traub

84 Things About Healthy people

  1. Healthy people can help more people.
  2. Healthy people love more people.
  3. Healthy people create more.
  4. Healthy people laugh more.
  5. Healthy people encourage other people more.
  6. Healthy people sing more.
  7. Healthy people take more risks for the right reasons.
  8. Healthy people want to change and do something about it.
  9. Healthy people fail and keep going.
  10. Healthy people pass on their failures to help others avoid them.
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  12. Healthy people laugh more quickly.
  13. Healthy people are better friends.
  14. Healthy people give more than is required or expected.
  15. Healthy people create healthy families.
  16. Healthy people adopt people into their family forever.
  17. Healthy people realize their health is a gift and try to keep it.
  18. Healthy people are grateful for any health they have, even if it’s fading.
  19. Healthy people don’t get frown lines.
  20. Healthy people help strangers.
  21. Healthy people will pay for your meal.
  22. Healthy people give better gifts.
  23. Healthy people multiply their influence.
  24. Healthy people don’t worry about the world running out of ideas.
  25. Healthy people celebrate other people’s accomplishments.
  26. Healthy people find common ground.
  27. Healthy people don’t assume you’re a bad person just because you disagree on something.
  28. Healthy people recognize great ideas.
  29. Healthy people do better than expect to.
  30. Healthy people share credit for their success and take credit for failure.
  31. Healthy people make every room they enter better.
  32. Healthy people want to live longer.
  33. Healthy people aren’t afraid to start over.
  34. Healthy people can take criticism and become better.
  35. Healthy people can take praise and remain humble.
  36. Healthy people don’t fish for compliments, they attract them.
  37. Healthy people are always more concerned about someone else in the room.
  38. Healthy people assume the best.
  39. Healthy people are quick to speak well of others.
  40. Healthy people are ok with quiet.
  41. Healthy people have enough.
  42. Healthy people are dissatisfied with their growth but patient with others’ growth.
  43. Healthy people think before they speak.
  44. Healthy people apologize.
  45. Healthy people seek to right wrongs.
  46. Healthy people don’t need things as much as they need people.
  47. Healthy people don’t rely on debt to live well.
  48. Healthy people have great friends.
  49. Healthy people never have trouble finding someone with a pickup truck to help.
  50. Healthy people will drop everything when their friend needs them.
  51. Healthy people measure life in memories.
  52. Healthy people buy based on value instead of cost.
  53. Healthy people seek advice.
  54. Healthy people take advice.
  55. Healthy people keep learning.
  56. Healthy people sing even when they’re not good singers.
  57. Healthy people take pride in things without being prideful.
  58. Healthy people give their stuff away.
  59. Healthy people invite people to their dinner table.
  60. Healthy people give without announcing it.
  61. Healthy people remember how dumb they used to be.
  62. Healthy people risk looking foolish.
  63. Healthy people are honest with everyone.
  64. Healthy people are the same at home as they are at work.
  65. Healthy people reserve their best for their family.
  66. Healthy people smile at strangers.
  67. Healthy people tip well.
  68. Healthy people are willing to start over.
  69. Healthy people can be alone without being lonely.
  70. Healthy people listen well.
  71. Healthy people tell their friends the truth even when it hurts for their friend to hear it.
  72. Healthy people notice sunsets.
  73. Healthy people are grateful for sunrises.
  74. Healthy people try new things.
  75. Healthy people are emotionally honest.
  76. Healthy people admit their weaknesses.
  77. Healthy people say, “I don’t know.”
  78. Healthy people dream of more and are willing to work to get it.
  79. Healthy people leave a legacy.
  80. Healthy people tell you when you have something in your teeth or a booger in your nose.
  81. Healthy people encourage.
  82. Healthy people sleep well.
  83. Healthy people appreciate their meals.
  84. Healthy people love their work.
  85. Healthy people know how to stop working.

Did I forget anything?

Filed Under: Attitude, Uncategorized Tagged With: Attitude, healthy, mindset

March 5, 2012 By Andy Traub

How do you measure success?

Today is going to be a great day. I’m hosting and/or recording five podcasts (you can watch them live today) with some of my favorite people today. Josh Gordon from the Non-Conformist Family, Jon Acuff from StuffChristiansLike.net, Rory Vaden, author of “Take The Stairs” and Ian Morgan Cron author of “Jesus, My Father, The Cia and Me”.

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The woman who handed me my bagel this morning said, “Have a good day!”

I replied, “I’m sure I will.”

Today will be a successful day because it’s a culmination of a lot of work. Each recording is another 40 minutes of content into the world. Each conversation will undoubtably enrich my mind and heart. The listeners that contact me from all over the world will no doubt also be encouraged and blessed by those conversations.

There are so many definitions of success. Mine is simple. Success is consistently shipping great content.

I can’t control how people react to it.
I can’t control who listens to it.
I can’t control if they take the encouragement and wisdom provided and make change in their lives.
I can’t control if they pass it on or not.

But, I can ship.
I can care about the  product.
I can enjoy every minute of creating it.
I can spread the word about it.
I can interact with those who leave comments and mention it on-line.
I can improve my life from the wisdom that is shared.
I can promote the authors and personalities that give me their time.

Some things you can control. Some things you can’t. Make sure your definition of success consists of things you can control. Then do them. How will you define success?

Filed Under: Attitude, Permission, Uncategorized Tagged With: Attitude, goals, Ian Morgan Cron, jon acuff, Josh Gordon, rory vaden, success

September 16, 2011 By Andy Traub

How to become an expert

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Yesterday my son put his shirt over his head and made a “helmet” out of it.  Then he yelled, “Dad!  Can I be Darth Vader?” Peeking into the next room to see why he was asking me for permission to be Darth Vader it quickly made sense. I replied, “Yeah buddy, you can be Darth Vader.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Attitude, Permission, Uncategorized Tagged With: andy traub, Attitude, darth vader, expert, take permission

August 27, 2010 By Andy Traub

Why people don't ship like Seth Godin tells them to

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[audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/andytraub/22ReasonsNotToShip.mp3]
Listen to my 22 lousy reasons…

1. I really need a new computer
2. I need a new logo
3. I need better pens
4. I need a better office
5. I need some business cards
6. I need a better microphone
7. I need more Twitter followers
8. I need more of a track record
9. I need more experience with clients that are that big
10. I need a better desk
11. I need a stronger voice
12. I need more blog posts [Read more…]

Filed Under: advice, Attitude, Audio, Permission Podcast, Productivity, Promotion, Small business, Social Media, Uncategorized Tagged With: advice, Attitude, Audio, podcast, reasons, seth godin, shipping

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