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Welcome to Immerse: Prophets! An Immerse Bible Reading (and listening!) Experience Chronicles–Ezra–Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel Immerse: Chronicles is the sixth and final installment in Immerse: The Bible Reading Experience featuring the New Living Translation (NLT) Bible text. Chronicles contains the remaining First Testament Books: Chronicles–Ezra–Nehemiah, Esther, and Daniel. These works were all written after the Jewish people fell under the control of foreign empires and were scattered amon ...
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Welcome to Immerse: Poets! An Immerse Bible Reading (and listening!) Experience Featuring the full New Living Translation (NLT) Bible version of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Lamentations Immerse: Poets is the fifth of six volumes in Immerse: The Bible Reading Experience. Poets presents the poetical books of the First Testament in two groupings, dividing the books between songbooks (Psalms, Lamentations, Song of Songs) and wisdom writings (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job). ...
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Welcome to Immerse: Prophets! An Immerse Bible Reading (and listening!) Experience Featuring the full New Living Translation (NLT) Bible, Immerse: Beginnings will take you along on a 16 week journey through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and The Minor Prophets. Immerse: Prophets is the fourth of six volumes in Immerse: The Bible Reading Experience. Prophets presents the First Testament prophets in groupings that generally represent four historical periods: the prophets who spoke before the fall ...
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Welcome to Damon's Brave New World... The Greatest Science-Fiction PodCast on Earth and in The Galaxy! Damon's Brave New World offers compelling podcast stories that will take you on a Fascinating Galactic Journey. Damon's Brave New World offers a collection of stories, videos, original music and ideas that offers a compelling and positive future for Humanity. It is our Destiny to be a Space faring race. Come join us. Exoplanets, Space Exploration and ET all come together at Damon's Brave Ne ...
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If you are a fan of the TV Show THE WONDER YEARS, author Bill Bryson, or the movie A CHRISTMAS STORY, your family will love the Boyhood Chronicles audio dramas. They’re like mini movies for your ears, the perfect treat for the whole family to enjoy after homework is done and before bedtime. These amazing true tales are narrated and produced by master storyteller Gray Gleason. The stories are from author Gregg Kalina's personal journals reflecting back to his childhood during the 60s and 70s ...
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Weekly Question & Framework: February 21, 2025
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4:47Question: Are you allowing their narrative to impact your life? Framework: The Skyscraper Mentality ••• Order My First Book to Unlock Exclusive Bonuses: The 5 Types of Wealth is the compass for your journey to a life of wealth that goes far beyond money. It provides the actionable tools to define, measure, and design your life around the pillars th…
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A few months ago, I had an experience that stopped me in my tracks. It was a reminder that sometimes in life, the things we pray for can become the things we complain about, but only if we let them. How many times has the thing your younger self dreamed of become the thing you complain about after you’ve gotten it? There are a lot of beauties in li…
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Last week was the biggest moment of my professional life: The release of my first book into the world. But I feel it's important to be honest here: The external reality seemed great—but my internal reality was a completely different story. The day of release, rather than happiness and joy at the accomplishment, I was in the grips of a common psycho…
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A Journey from Earth to DianToz-An Alien Abduction
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5:13Learn about the origins of The DianTozians who were transported from the planet earth as an early hominoid species known as Heidelbergensis.By R. Damon Lignos
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Learn more about The Land of DianToz from Zara and the rest of the Alpha Scouts as you prepare to journey on A Space Odyssey to The DianToz Tri-Star SystemBy R. Damon Lignos
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After three years, I can't believe I finally get to say this: The 5 Types of Wealth is now available everywhere books are sold! It's time we all reject the default definitions of success that have been handed to us and start living by design. This book is a guide to doing just that. Order The 5 Types of Wealth Now! Also available at Barnes & Noble…
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Status can be defined as the standing or positioning of one person in relation to another person or group. Status is a basic form of social currency—it dictates our interactions with those around us. There are two types of status: Bought Status and Earned Status. Bought Status is the improved social positioning garnered through acquired status symb…
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Weekly Question And Framework January 24th, 2025
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3:15Question: Do you need to allow the things you want to come to you? Framework: The Right Now Test We're less than two weeks away from the launch of my first book, The 5 Types of Wealth. Order today to Unlock Exclusive Bonuses The 5 Types of Wealth provides the actionable tools to define, measure, and design your life around the pillars that truly cr…
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I spent time with Arthur C. Brooks, the world's leading expert on happiness science. As I was writing my book, I asked Arthur to collaborate with me on collecting a list of some of our best ideas for living a happy, healthy, wealthy life. This piece shares 22 happiness hacks we wish we knew at 22. We're two weeks away from the launch of my first bo…
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Weekly Question & Framework: January 17, 2025
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4:25Question: Are you holding onto something that you no longer need? Framework: Helped, Heard, or Hugged We're two weeks away from the launch of my first book, The 5 Types of Wealth. Order today to Unlock Exclusive Bonuses The 5 Types of Wealth provides the actionable tools to define, measure, and design your life around the pillars that truly create …
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"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response." - Viktor Frankl This piece shares a monthly space-creating ritual that changed my life (and may change yours): The Think Day. The Think Day is a single day each month where you disconnect from your day-to-day professional responsibilities and spend…
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Weekly Question & Framework: January 10, 2025
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3:55Question: Are you aware of the finite, impermanent nature of your time? Framework: The Donkey MindsetBy Sahil Bloom
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I just turned 34. Every year, I use my birthday as a moment for reflection, an opportunity to zoom out and consider what I've learned along the way. I hope you see yourself in one or more of these lessons, that they connect and spark a positive ripple in your life. This piece shares 34 life lessons from my 34 years. We're less than a month away fro…
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Weekly Question & Framework: January 3, 2025
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3:58Question: Are you afraid of your own light? Framework: The Starfish Rule We're just over a month away from the launch of my first book, The 5 Types of Wealth. Order today to Unlock Exclusive Bonuses The 5 Types of Wealth provides the actionable tools to define, measure, and design your life around the pillars that truly create lasting happiness and…
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I've never been a fan of New Year's resolutions: They're too rigid and require a belief that you can choose the perfect set of resolutions that will be relevant throughout the entire year. I prefer to set New Year's intentions: Big picture, open-ended ideas and mindsets that I want to focus on for the year ahead. The 5 intentions I'm setting for 20…
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Weekly Question & Framework: December 27, 2024
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2:37Question: Are you allowing your head to outsmart your gut? Framework: The 4-7-8 Breathing MethodBy Sahil Bloom
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Welcome to the final Wednesday issue of 2024. For the third year in a row, I sent out over 100 newsletters to my subscribers—two per week, every single week. In fact, I haven't missed an issue since I started this newsletter in May 2021. This newsletter is all about ideas—actionable ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, wealthy life. …
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Weekly Question & Framework: December 20, 2024
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5:09Framework: The Grow30 Challenge Question: What answers are hidden in the actions you avoid?By Sahil Bloom
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The Annual Planning Guide includes: (1) my simple goal-setting framework, (2) three system-building mental models, and (3) a strategy for tracking and adjusting throughout the year. This annual planning process has been an immensely helpful exercise to which I would credit many of my greatest achievements. I hope that it will spark you to conduct y…
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Weekly Question & Framework: December 13, 2024
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3:18Question: What are you doing to reveal the invisible opportunities? Framework: The Four Quarters TechniqueBy Sahil Bloom
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The end of the calendar year presents us with a unique and valuable opportunity: To reflect on the year that was and plan for the year that will be. I started conducting a Personal Annual Review over ten years ago. It has been a transformative exercise—one that has had an outsized impact on my personal progress and growth. The Personal Annual Revie…
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Weekly Question & Framework: December 6, 2024
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2:35Question: Who are your Darkest Hour Friends? Framework: The Nova EffectBy Sahil Bloom
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My Honest Advice to Someone Who Wants to Make A Lot of Money
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11:06I see a lot of bad advice out there when it comes to how to do that—most of it trying to sell you on the easy way to make money. This piece is my attempt to offer some good in a sea of bad: My honest advice to someone who wants to make a lot of money. A sampling of the advice: The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value, there's…
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Every month, I receive hundreds of messages, emails, and questions from people all around the world. The single most common question that comes up: "I feel lost. What should I do?" Here's an open letter to my lost younger self—with the five things I'd like to tell that version of me that would have accelerated his path to the other side. (1) Reclai…
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Weekly Question & Framework: November 15, 2024
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3:05Question: Do you want to be liked or loved? Framework: Amor FatiBy Sahil Bloom
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One year ago, my family came together to mourn the loss of my grandmother. Reflecting on the experience later, I was struck by one thing: The card for the memorial had her date of birth and date of death, with a simple dash in between. That dash holds everything. Every ounce of a person's life captured in that single, small, insignificant line. The…
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One of the greatest joys of my life is that I often get to spend time in rooms surrounded by big thinkers. Rooms with an extraordinary idea density. There are certain times when, even long after leaving the room, the ideas linger in my mind. I wrestle with them to develop my only lens for each. This piece shares 24 short ideas I can't stop thinking…
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Weekly Question & Framework: November 1, 2024
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4:39Question: Are you embracing your Pattern Interrupts? Framework: Zeigarnik EffectBy Sahil Bloom
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13 Harsh Truths About Success Nobody Told You
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13:00Success isn't what you think. You're sold a glossy, filtered version of success. The reality looks different. In today's piece, I want to share the harsh truths about success—the reality that no one sells you (because it wouldn't sell very well). 13 harsh truths about success nobody told you: (1) You will have to endure long seasons of loneliness; …
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Weekly Question & Framework: October 25, 2024
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4:08Question: Does your situation need to change, or just your outlook on it? Framework: The Cobra EffectBy Sahil Bloom
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“Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael Hopf We live in an ease-obsessed world. To build the life you want, to earn the things you want, your resistance is the cost of entry. Remember: Nothing worth having in life should be easy. The things that matter in…
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Weekly Question & Framework: October 18, 2024
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3:43Question: Are you allowing self-protection to become self-rejection? Framework: Hedgehogs vs. FoxesBy Sahil Bloom
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It's easy to allow your weeks to spiral out of control as you try to navigate your personal and professional responsibilities. Fortunately, I developed some tricks that helped me fight back. 4 tiny habits that dramatically improved my weeks: (1) Defining what a "win" looks like, (2) Creating an awareness of my energy, (3) Executing a daily manageme…
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Weekly Question & Framework: October 11, 2024
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4:30Question: How can you decide to be happy today? Framework: The Ludic FallacyBy Sahil Bloom
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More intensity is not the answer. To achieve the things you want in life, you must pursue them with balance. Unfortunately, in the modern era, to pursue things with balance is almost indistinguishable from laziness. The single greatest challenge for any ambitious person is reframing slowing down as an essential part of your performance, not a rewar…
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Weekly Question & Framework: October 4, 2024
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3:32Question: What are the beliefs that no longer serve me? Framework: The Dartmouth Scar ExperimentBy Sahil Bloom
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In my 20s, I nearly drove myself mad adding more and more new things to my life. Today, I'm 33, happier, healthier, and more successful than I've ever been—but in today's piece, I want to share the secret that unlocked all of that: I quit. The truth is that the fastest way to improve your life is not adding new things to serve you, but quitting wha…
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Weekly Question & Framework: September 27, 2024
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4:18Question: How can you change your outlook by changing your perspective? Framework: The Theory of ConstraintsBy Sahil Bloom
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I've come to believe that there is one common theme that holds people back from living the life they want—and the life they are capable of living: Overthinking. In today's piece, I want to share what worked for me: Three simple mindset shifts—reminders and reframes you can reliably turn to—that helped me conquer overthinking for good. Three mindset…
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Weekly Question & Framework: September 20, 2024
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4:22Question: How will you respond when you find yourself in the valley? Framework: The Two Types of HappinessBy Sahil Bloom
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"All the things which cause complaint or dread are like the taxes of life—things from which, my dear Lucilius, you should never hope for exemption or seek escape." - Seneca This idea—that there are taxes of life that you should happily pay—resonates deeply. The reframe to view these negatives as a necessary part of my growth and progress has been t…
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Weekly Question & Framework: September 13, 2024
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3:31Question: What sacrifices are you willing to make to get the things you want? Framework: Winston's StarBy Sahil Bloom
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8 Lessons from a Marathon (That Have Nothing to Do With Running)
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9:45Last weekend, I ran my second marathon in 2:53:38. This was a 4-minute personal best. During the suffering of miles 20-26 and the journey home after the race, I found myself reflecting on the key lessons from the experience. Interestingly, none of them have anything to do with running. This piece shares 8 powerful lessons for life from running a ma…
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Weekly Question & Framework: September 6, 2024
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4:05Question: What are the lesser goals keeping you from your real goals? Framework: The Riptide MentalityBy Sahil Bloom
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For the last several years, I've kept a running list of my favorite life hacks. I add and subtract from the list whenever I come across new ideas that create value in my life. I'd like to make a tradition of sharing that list annually with all of you—in the hope that you take action on them and feel their impact on your life. Here are the most powe…
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Weekly Question & Framework: August 30, 2024
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2:35Question: What are the barriers within you that need to be broken? Framework: The Beginner's ParadoxBy Sahil Bloom
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I have a few core Missions that define my life—everything is aligned around them. Missions are life journeys with no specific end. Missions are not goals. Missions are infinite games. The power of Missions is found in the clarity they provide: If an opportunity, person, or action does not positively contribute to one of your Missions, you can say n…
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Weekly Question & Framework: August 23, 2024
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3:51Question: Do you need to reframe retirement? Framework: The Cathedral EffectBy Sahil Bloom
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