Best Norm Mulder Podcasts (2025)

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A Transformational Figure 20:08

1h ago20:08

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David Goggins has one of the most inspirational transformation stories, overcoming extreme adversity to become a Navy SEAL, ultramarathon runner, and motivational speaker. Here are a few key moments from his journey: Overcoming Childhood Trauma – Goggins grew up in an abusive household, dealing with racism, poverty, and low self-esteem. Despite the…

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Examples of Overcoming Incarceration 19:57

19h ago19:57

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There are many individuals who overcame incarceration and went on to make a significant impact. Here are a few notable examples: Nelson Mandela – Spent 27 years in prison for opposing apartheid in South Africa. After his release, he led the country to democracy and became its first Black president. Malcolm X – While incarcerated, he educated himsel…

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Procrastination is the Success Killer 20:30

4d ago20:30

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Procrastination can be a major personal challenge for several reasons: Increased Stress and Anxiety – Delaying tasks often leads to last-minute rushes, which can create unnecessary pressure and overwhelm. Reduced Productivity – Constantly putting things off means less gets done, leading to missed opportunities and inefficiency. Lowered Self-Esteem …

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Change is Important 21:23

8d ago21:23

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Change is important for several reasons, whether in personal growth, business, or society. Here are five key reasons: Growth and Improvement – Change allows individuals and organizations to evolve, improve skills, and develop better systems or processes. Adaptation to New Challenges – The world is constantly changing, and adaptability is essential …

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Change Can Be Difficult 24:46

14d ago24:46

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Change is difficult for several reasons, both on a personal and organizational level. Here are five key reasons why: Fear of the Unknown – People are naturally resistant to uncertainty. Not knowing what the future holds can create anxiety, making it difficult to embrace change. Loss of Control – Change often means giving up familiar processes, rout…

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How We Cheat Ourselves 21:50

16d ago21:50

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We cheat ourselves in a lot of subtle ways, often without realizing it. Here are some examples: Procrastination – Telling ourselves we’ll start tomorrow when we know we should start now. Self-Doubt – Convincing ourselves we’re not good enough, so we don’t even try. Making Excuses – Blaming time, circumstances, or other people instead of taking resp…

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Starting a Transformational Journey 23:27

21d ago23:27

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Starting a transformational journey is a big step, and setting a strong foundation will make all the difference. Here are the most important steps to take at the beginning: 1. Clarify Your Vision Define what transformation means to you. Ask yourself: What do I truly want to change? Visualize your ideal self and life. 2. Identify Your "Why" Understa…

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Hard Work Turns Potential Into Reality 20:14

23d ago20:14

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Hard work is important to success because it builds skills, resilience, and opportunities. Here’s why: Skill Development – The more effort you put in, the more you learn and improve. Mastery comes from consistent practice. Resilience & Discipline – Success requires persistence through failures and setbacks. Hard work builds the mental toughness nee…

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The Importance of Setting Clear Goals 20:40

28d ago20:40

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A great example is Jim Carrey. Before he became a famous actor, he was struggling financially and working hard to break into Hollywood. In the early 1990s, he wrote himself a check for $10 million for "acting services rendered" and dated it for Thanksgiving 1995. He kept that check in his wallet and visualized achieving his goal every day. Carrey c…

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Goals are Crucial to Success 21:03

1M ago21:03

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Goals are crucial to success because they provide direction, motivation, and a clear way to measure progress. Here’s why they matter so much: Clarity & Focus – Goals help you define what success looks like, preventing distractions and keeping you on track. Motivation & Drive – Having a goal gives you a reason to push through challenges and stay com…

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Building Better Routines 22:01

1M ago22:01

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Building better routines starts with intention and consistency. Here’s a step-by-step approach to creating routines that actually stick: 1. Clarify Your Goals What do you want to improve? (e.g., fitness, productivity, mental health) Why is this important to you? (Strong motivation makes habits last.) 2. Start Small & Build Gradually Instead of a dr…

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Change Can Happen Part 2 21:16

1M ago21:16

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Bringing about change in someone's life—whether it's your own or someone else's—requires the right tools and approaches. Here are some key tools that can help: 1. Mental & Emotional Tools Self-awareness & Reflection – Journaling, meditation, or therapy to understand personal desires and obstacles. Growth Mindset – Believing that abilities and circu…

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Change Can Happen 21:42

2M ago21:42

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Bringing about change in someone's life—whether it's your own or someone else's—requires the right tools and approaches. Here are some key tools that can help: 1. Mental & Emotional Tools Self-awareness & Reflection – Journaling, meditation, or therapy to understand personal desires and obstacles. Growth Mindset – Believing that abilities and circu…

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Why Do You Think the Way You Do - Part 2 21:25

2M ago21:25

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The way a person thinks is influenced by a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Here are the primary elements that shape how a person thinks: 1. Internal Influences Biological and Neurological Factors Brain Structure and Function: Neurological processes, such as those in the prefrontal cortex and limbic system, play a role in decisio…

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Why Do You Think the Way You Do - Part 1 22:08

2M ago22:08

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The way a person thinks is influenced by a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Here are the primary elements that shape how a person thinks: 1. Internal Influences Biological and Neurological Factors Brain Structure and Function: Neurological processes, such as those in the prefrontal cortex and limbic system, play a role in decisio…

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The Value of a Personal Vision Statement 21:37

2M ago21:37

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Having a personal vision is essential because it provides clarity, purpose, and direction in life. It acts as a guiding star, influencing your decisions, actions, and mindset. Here's why having a personal vision is important: 1. Clarity of Purpose A personal vision helps you define what truly matters to you—your values, goals, and aspirations. It e…

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Using Our Pain in the Transformation Journey 22:31

2M ago22:31

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Emotional pain, though challenging and often overwhelming, can have positive aspects that contribute to personal growth, resilience, and self-awareness. Here’s how emotional pain can be seen in a positive light: 1. Catalyst for Growth Emotional pain often forces you to confront difficult truths about yourself, your relationships, or your circumstan…

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Improving Personal Odds of Success 23:29

2M ago23:29

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Improving personal odds of success involves a mix of strategic planning, consistent effort, and personal growth. Here are some practical steps you can take: 1. Set Clear Goals Define Success: Be specific about what success looks like for you. Break It Down: Create actionable and measurable short-term goals leading to your ultimate goal. 2. Develop …

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Building Better Habits 23:38

2M ago23:38

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Building better habits can be life-changing and significantly enhance productivity, health, and overall well-being. Here’s a guide to help you create lasting habits: 1. Start Small Begin with small, manageable changes. For example, if you want to exercise more, start with just 5-10 minutes a day. Focus on consistency over intensity. 2. Set Clear Go…

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Steps Toward Personal Transformation 22:18

3M ago22:18

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Self-Awareness: Reflect on your current life, habits, and mindset. Identify what is holding you back or misaligned with your goals. Tools: journaling, meditation, or seeking feedback from trusted sources. Define Your Vision: Envision the person you want to become and what your ideal life looks like. Set clear, meaningful goals that align with your …

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Personal Transformation Journey 21:06

3M ago21:06

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Personal transformation is a powerful and deeply personal journey of growth and self-discovery. It involves fundamentally changing aspects of your mindset, behavior, or way of life to align more closely with your values, goals, and true self. While the process can be challenging, it is also profoundly rewarding, leading to greater self-awareness, f…

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Learn to Be a Finisher 22:17

3M ago22:17

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The second part of TOPUCU is the FINISHER Program. Here, we guide you through the process of taking an inventory of your life. We’ll break it down into sections like family, education, health, work and more. This activity leads to the creation of a Personal Mission Statement for your life. We’ll get to the core of who you are and help you lay out s…

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Change Vs. Transformation 21:35

3M ago21:35

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Change can be small and incremental, or it can be large and complex. But it is something that needs to be constantly monitored and maintained. Think of all of the change management processes and procedures in an IT organization. You do not put them in place and hope for the best. Transformation is almost always large and significant. Transformation…

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Change Your Habits, Change Your Life 22:17

3M ago22:17

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Lesson One: Habits Focus on the three components of habits: Trigger, Routine, and Reward. Emphasize control over the "Routine" as the manageable aspect of a habit. Dissect triggers to understand the "Why" behind each habit and develop new routines aligned with goals.By Norm Mulder

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Habits Make the Person 23:06

3M ago23:06

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Lesson One: Habits Focus on the three components of habits: Trigger, Routine, and Reward. Emphasize control over the "Routine" as the manageable aspect of a habit. Dissect triggers to understand the "Why" behind each habit and develop new routines aligned with goals.By Norm Mulder

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Sharpen the Saw, Do the Work and Make the Change 23:06

3M ago23:06

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Feeling good doesn't just happen. Living a life in balance means taking the necessary time to renew yourself. It's all up to you. You can renew yourself through relaxation. Or you can totally burn yourself out by overdoing everything. You can pamper yourself mentally and spiritually. Or you can go through life oblivious to your well-being. You can …

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Synergy, Working Together to Build Community 19:04

3M ago19:04

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When people begin to interact together genuinely, and they're open to each other's influence, they begin to gain new insight. The capability of inventing new approaches is increased exponentially because of differences. Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among p…

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Overcoming Failure 23:06

4M ago23:06

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Everyone of us has experienced failure, so the question isn't if we have failed, but what did we do when we fail and what will we do when we fail in the future? Being ready to evaluate the things in your life that cause you to fail and change those things is what leads to true growth. The tools of TOPUCU will help all of us make the necessary chang…

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Become the Person of Your Mission and Share Your Testimony 21:03

4M ago21:03

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Telling your story is a powerful way to connect with others. Here’s a guide to help you craft and share your story effectively: 1. Understand Your Purpose Why are you telling your story? Is it to inspire, educate, entertain, or connect? Know your audience and what they might find valuable or relatable in your story. 2. Structure Your Story A well-s…

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Building a Mission Statement that Guides Your Life 22:16

4M ago22:16

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Welcome to Mission Statement Part 9 of the TOPUCU Finisher Program. Today we are going to take everything you’ve written so far and build the first draft of your PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT. To get you started, here are the mission statements of a few well-known companies and individuals. Take some time to read through them and then we’ll get starte…

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Your Vision Will Be Determinative 22:11

4M ago22:11

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Vision can often be met with criticism because those who have no vison for their own success feel threatened by those who have decided to get up and do something with themselves – Andy Stanley HABIT 5: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD Communication is the most important skill in life. You spend years learning how to read and write, a…

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Seek the Important, Do 6 Important Things Each Day 22:11

4M ago22:11

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HABIT 3: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST To live a more balanced existence, you have to recognize that not doing everything that comes along is okay. There's no need to overextend yourself. All it takes is realizing that it's all right to say no when necessary and then focus on your highest priorities. Habit 1 says, "You're in charge. You're the creator." B…

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What are Your "Odds of Success?" 23:07

4M ago23:07

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Champions have learned specific tools throughout the years to help them create motivation even when they don’t’ feel like being motivated. The famous author and speaker Zig Ziglar once said, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” Are you ready? Then let’s get down to it! One o…

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Pain is a Must! 23:46

5M ago23:46

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Lesson Three: Pain Highlight the role of pain and discomfort in positive transformation. Emphasize that the pain of change is minor compared to the potential pain of remaining in the current situation. Encourage embracing discomfort as a crucial part of the journey toward improvement.By Norm Mulder

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Begin With the End in Mind 23:13

5M ago23:13

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Life is a journey. And as you know, every journey has a destination. Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose. Life is a multifaceted journey. It calls for a multifaceted vision. Whether you are aware of it or not, you have multiple visions for your life. – Andy Stanley (Visioneering) So, what do you want to be …

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Finish Before You Start, Vision is Key 21:29

5M ago21:29

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Life is a journey. And as you know, every journey has a destination. Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose. Life is a multifaceted journey. It calls for a multifaceted vision. Whether you are aware of it or not, you have multiple visions for your life. – Andy Stanley (Visioneering) The ability to envision in …

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Your Life Doesn't Just Happen, Be Proactive 22:10

5M ago22:10

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Vison is always accompanied by strong emotion. And the clearer the vision, the stronger the emotion. Vision provides motivation. The mundane begins to matter. The details, chores and routines of life become a worthwhile means to a planned-for end. Vision driven people are motivated people. Find me a man or woman who lacks motivation, and I’ll show …

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Real Change to Bring About Transformation 22:36

5M ago22:36

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OUR MISSION TOPUCU is an acronym that stands for, “the only person you cheat is you“. When it comes to the area of personal development and playing this game called life, there is a universal question, how do you get yourself to do what you don’t want to do, in order to become who you want to become. The answer has always been the same, two words, …

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Are You Controlling Your Habits or are Your Habits Controlling You 22:07

6M ago22:07

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Today we are going to talk about habits. Why? Because habits are a prime principle of life. So why, then, is it so hard to form good habits and keep them? Well the first reason is most of us have never really paid much attention to our habits. By their very nature, habits are actions performed without a great deal of thought and once a habit is for…

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Transformation Means Changing the Way You Think Part 2 22:11

6M ago22:11

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In this episode we explore 5 key thoughts to changing the way you think. Show Up, Find an Anchor, Ask Why, Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Look at Things from a Different View. In TOPUCU we know that in order to change you first have to change the way you think. We often do steps 2 and 3 of change, which are change the way we feel and act, but fo…

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Transformation Means Changing the Way You Think 20:46

6M ago20:46

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In this episode we explore 5 key thoughts to changing the way you think. Show Up, Find an Anchor, Ask Why, Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Look at Things from a Different View. In TOPUCU we know that in order to change you first have to change the way you think. We often do steps 2 and 3 of change, which are change the way we feel and act, but fo…

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Bringing Transformation to the World, Visualization 21:25

6M ago21:25

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You must finish before you start. We can already hear you saying, “What’s this one all about? What in the world does it mean to say ‘You must finish before you start?’” Well, we’re into the fifth lesson plan, so we’re going to ask you to think this one through for a second. Have you figured it out yet? This lesson is all about visualization – seein…

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Am I the Enemy, Pain Association Transfer (PAT) 22:33

6M ago22:33

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That’s the concept we’re going to talk about today: pain. It’s a scary word, isn’t it? The vast majority of people listening to this will immediately associate the word pain with something negative from the past, and so it would be only natural that we would actively try to avoid things that cause us pain. Indeed there are some painful aspects of l…

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Change Can Happen, TOPUCU Can Help 20:18

6M ago20:18

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Change isn't easy, but the stages of change model can help you understand the process and maybe make this process a little bit easier. TOPUCU recognizes this model and using TOPUCU will help you become the person of your Mission Statement! Changing the way you think will make all the difference between success and failure. The tools and lessons of …

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Burning the Bridge to Recidivism 21:12

6M ago21:12

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In TOPUCU we talk about burning the bridge to past bad behaviors. We talk about making an irrevocable decision to to the things that will bring success and happiness. This is exactly the message we want to share with those who are incarcerated. We want them to know they can burn the bridge to criminal thinking. They can burn the bridge to a destruc…

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TOPUCU, Time is One of Your Best Assets 23:39

7M ago23:39

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Lesson Six: Value of Time Explore the "Value of Time" in the context of transformation. Advocate making a daily task list and optimizing the available 168 hours each week. Emphasize that lasting transformation requires time, and effective time use facilitates change.By Norm Mulder

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TOPUCU, Meekness is a Super Power 21:53

7M ago21:53

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Meekness is not weakness! Meekness is best seen as controlled power. Every power principle has a polar opposite, suchas mess on one end and order on the other. On one day I could teach the power of embracing mess. And I would be right. The next day I could teach the power principle of creating order. So which is right? Embracing mess or creating or…

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TOPUCU, Universal Principles of Transformation 21:53

7M ago21:53

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OUR MISSION TOPUCU is an acronym that stands for, “the only person you cheat is you“. When it comes to the area of personal development and playing this game called life, there is a universal question, how do you get yourself to do what you don’t want to do, in order to become who you want to become. The answer has always been the same, two words, …

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TOPUCU, What are the Odds, Developing Self-Confidence 22:17

7M ago22:17

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How many times do we do this on a daily basis? We literally weigh the reward and odds of success against the hard work it’s going to take to achieve them. These three things are the components of motivation: odds of success, reward and hard work. And if you can understand how they relate to each other then you are on your way to making a change. So…

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TOPUCU, Burn the Bridge an Irrevocable Choice 20:09

7M ago20:09

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Lesson Seven: Burn the Bridge Encourage identifying and visualizing challenges preventing change. Symbolically "burn the bridge" by eliminating obstacles and committing to the future self. Highlight the importance of unwavering commitment to personal growth and change.By Norm Mulder

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