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● Why it’s better to START now, then later ● How to overcome your fear of starting your CHANGE ● Plus I try Periscope for the first time Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Follow me on Periscope @itsalexbarker The Success Principles by Jack Canfield Madalyn Sklar and the Twitter Smarter Podcast ­  Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

Today I share a story from the book The Go-­Getter and lessons that will make or break your ability to form a habit. Discover the difference between the standard you should set for yourself and what's expected of you The quality that defines the quickly successful and the slowly successful Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com The Go-­Getter by Peter Kyne Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Today’s episode may tap into your deep-rooted beliefs about life. I chat with Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation about a book that changed how he thought about life and business. We discuss ● How to determine your net worth and increase it ● The secret traits every stratospherically-successful person has ● How to apply the principle of giving into your everyday life. Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com The Go­-Giver by Bob Burg Side Hustle Nation ­ Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

I struggle with giving up my ideas. I feel like a failure if I do. Today, my wife (Megan) and I discuss the struggles of doing a daily podcast, pushing myself too hard, and the effects on my family. And lastly, I share what you can do to discover if you’re pushing yourself too hard and what to do about it. Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker  Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

We talk about what has been my greatest struggle in pursuing this show and my goals. We chat how we can refill our buckets. Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Ryan Eller ­ Live Your List  9 Things Successful People Do Differently by Heidi Grant Halvorson Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Do you feel stuck with making decisions in life? I struggle with making decisions and questions plague me like: ● If I choose this path, will I be stuck doing this longer than I want? ● Should I spend time on this project, or will this distract me from my ultimate goal? ● What will be taken away from my life if I decide to pursue this opportunity? But today you and I chat about how LESS IS MORE. Sometimes we can add more into our lives and that creates LESS to do. Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Do you wish everytime you worked you were less distracted, got more done in less time, felt creativity and accomplished? Today you and I chat about “flow” (defined as profound mental clarity provided by the state) and how to use it in our everyday lives. ­ how to use our environment to place in a state of ultimate creativity ­ where to place ourselves do to our greatest work who we should surround ourselves that synergizes your work and enhance flow what we can do on a day to day basis to enter flow Notes What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker  Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Special announcement today about Season 2 Today you and I chat about How your ideas can become viral Simple steps to spread your idea A few tactics I learned the hard way that you can implement the easy way Tweet at me your crazy ideas for Season 2 @itsalexbarker Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Contagious by Jonah Berger  Erin Giles and End Sex Trafficking Campaign  Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Why feeding your curiosity is the best way to live a full life. In this episode, We talk about Richard Branson and dissect lessons from his success to apply to your life. Things like: ● The key quality that has lead to Branson’s success ● How you can copy Branson and expand your life ● But, we also ask, “Should you copy every successful person?” Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Screw It, Let’s Do It by Richard Branson Richard Branson’s TED Talk ­  Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

We all fall down. It’s the people around us that determine how quickly we get back up. A mentor is essential to your long­term success. In this episode we chat about ­ how mentors build into your future, and how it’ll make you squirm if you have the right one ­my personal board of directors and how to find your own ­ conversations with my mentors and how they’ve helped me Need a mentor? First ask yourself: Are you someone that a mentor would want to talk with? Are you doing something worthy of being mentored on? If not, then it’s time you found something worth pursuing with your life to be mentored on! Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Corey Jahnke ­  David Madow ­ Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker  Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

Failure ­ let’s chat about it. If you’re human, then you should listen to this episode because you’re going to fail. We chat about the problems with the common message of “embrace failure” and how we should see failure in our lives. Why embracing failures and wanting more failures is a bad way to live life The one class in high school that you should have paid attention in How to use science to validate your ideas and avoid future failures Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Failing Forward by John Maxwell Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker  Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Everyone eventually wants the attention of someone with influence. We’d love the opportunity to tell the President everything he’s doing wrong, or at least we think we would tell him... We would swoon for the moment to speak with a celebrity, who’s endorsement could easily make our lives so much easier. A conversation with a multimillionaire could change the direction of our lives A word of encouragement from an olympic champion could determine our health until we’re in our 70’s Whenever I’ve met with an expert, life becomes easier. Here’s a few examples from my life when I ask an expert’s advice: Made $1,500 a week from promoting a service through Facebook ads Created my first ebook ­ Hangout and Grow Rich: How to Create a Virtual Mastermind in 30 Days Launched a podcast with over 100,000 downloads and remains in the top 100 podcast consistently in the Career section (even though it “stopped” over a year ago) Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Mastermind Talks Pod

Today is all about tears for me. I’m not the sort of dad who cries easily. But time to time I get teary-eyed after watching a great cinema, finding out I deeply hurt someone, or when I realize how beautiful my children are. I read a book today that made me teary-eyed. Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Daring Greatly by Brene Brown Brene Brown TED Talk ­ The Power of Vulnerability Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

Today we discuss how your habits will cause Haters to pop up in your life AND how we can deal with them Today I share: ­ My first real hater that posted hateful comments about me, like how I needed to move out of my parents house and shave, and how I responded Two classy ways to respond to haters that will leave you satisfied (and no anxiety) What Albert Einstein believes about haters : HATERS GONNA HATE How Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs responds to a hater with humbling pictures Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com PewDiePie’s Response to Haters How to Deal With Difficult People, Bullies, and Haters by Derek Halpern Albert Einstein’s letter to Madame Curie  Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker  Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza

Today I discuss how you must always challenge your assumptions. You know what assumptions do, right? ;) You’ll learn about this awesome resource I created: Free Tools for Life and Business Hackers Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Work Smarter by Nick Loper Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

100% honesty today. I ask myself and you a difficult question. This question, if asked daily, can motivate you towards your end goal. We’ll discuss in this episode: ● The number one regret people have before they die ● How living the average life creates multiple regrets ● How to identify the actions in your life that cause regrets ● And what steps you need to take to live without regret today Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

Heyo fellow life experimenter. In this session, you and I fist bump and transform our lives by beating the Resistance. What’s the Resistance? It’s the universal force that stops you from achieving great things in life. We’ll learn: ● How to spot resistance in your life, where it shows up most commonly, and most importantly ● How to kick Resistance into submission and create your life’s greatest work ● Plus, you and I tackle the ultimate key to beat Resistance: Going Pro Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker  Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter  Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

I share key lessons from the greatest difficulties of starting my 66 Day Experiment What I would do differently if I were start this all over Key lessons from the first part of the 66 Day Experiment ­ Habits are hard to establish - my exercise habit has been the most difficult to maintain -- I feel like I almost convince myself not to do it in the mornings, and then before I know it, I have to get ready and go to work -  have the same trigger every day --  a worthwhile reward is needed for this podcast; but a tracking system helps too ­ Fear or the Resistance is POWERFUL -  give up daily ­ Tracking is essential - use the habit tracker -- wouldn’t have know how far I’ve come --  also would realize that these “habits’ wouldn’t actually stick if I track them ­ Accountability + Feedback is essential - find someone or someway to be accountable ­ Do differently ­ Probably would record everything and then release it into a podcast -  there’s advantages and disadvantages to this -- disadvantage ­ lack of fe

● Learn what quality you need in order to achieve your goals (hint: it’s not money, good fortune, luck, determination, motivation or even willpower!) ● How this quality will trump any hardwiring against success (like procrastination or laziness) ● I share how to make this quality a permanent a part of your being Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com How Children Succeed by Paul Tough Find out your Grit Score  Angela Duckworth Ted Talk: The key to success? Grit ­ Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza 

● Once you apply this principle in your life, everything becomes a little simpler ● You’ll learn the key step that you need to take in order to get further ahead on your goals ● Why bees are smarter than you and how to fix that Notes: What do you think? Email me at feedback@66dayexperiment.com How to Copy the Success of Millionaires ­ Day 11 How to Create and Find a Mastermind  Toastmasters Hive Dance Principle ­ (Video of my Talk ­) Follow me on Twitter: @itsalexbarker Rate and Review the Show (send me an email and I’ll send you a book of your choice!) Subscribe on iTunes  Join our Newsletter Music provided by the generous and awesome Odesza