Make Yourself Great Again!: Recent Episodes

Robert Worstell

You're Already Wired for Exceptional Success
BUT: Those same programs also have given you your greatest failures.
What makes it worse is to find out that all you ever needed to succeed was already programmed into you – and has been since you were born...

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(Click here to download audio.) All Good Can Be Used for Bad – Mindset Cautions As a key point worth repeating: Anything good can be used for bad. This deserves special mention. Eventually, those using anything for bad will die off. Those who are open-handedly helping others around them tend to live longer, more peaceful [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Can Faith Create the World You Want? That William James concept above has more mileage than it first appears. Let’s define faith: The conviction that something is good and true. According to Nap Hill’s Think and Grow Rich Chapter 3 on Faith, it is a form of self-created energy which can [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Does Faith Create Miracles by Thought Alone? This may be the most incredible part to tell you about. In fact, though I ve read or listened to these books at least a dozen times each (many more for some) this one datum I glossed over completely until I started writing the short [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Your Mindset Stack: Who’s Behind the Mask? The wildest breakthrough I made in researching this area has got to be this: There is a very powerful enemy that people call up in order to justify their actions. Particularly their mistakes, doubts, and fears. This enemy allows them to get away [...]

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(Click here for audio download.) Why Criticism Spreads Faster Than Happiness or Joy – It’s How You Stack Your Mindset Feeling bad has its own rewards. That probably is why it is so common in our society. Simply: Bucket Crabs need help to be effective. Misery loves company. The truly weird thing is that people [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Why Scientists Get it So Wrong So Often – Human Mindset Issues The problem with Scientists may be that they are humans, first. That means they are subject to the same frailties humans have had before we started our 10,000 years of recorded history. Here s the two complaints mentioned earlier [...]

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(Click Here to Download Audio.) The One Reason for Both Our Success and Failure – Mindset Nothing new is without risk. Easy to say, even when you ve lived through it. What they don t tell you is that the worst traps you can run into are in your own mind. Research found many sources saying the [...]

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(Click to download audio.) The Revenge of the Bucket Crabs – Who’s Holding Your Success Mindset Back? Throughout our lives, we are trained to follow the follower. We are not taught to be entrepreneurs. We are not taught in the fine art of creative thinking. We are not even taught how to make and pursue [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Failure is not an option. Scams make it happen to everyone. Tweak your mindset to survive when it does. Living on a farm, you don t expect some scammer three states away to serve you with a legal form. I was on the phone with a friend when an off-duty deputy [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Is This Really Just As Good As it Gets? Jack Nicholson’s character, in the movie of the same name, asks a waiting room full of other characters, What if this is as good as it gets? Then he spends the rest of the movie disproving that question. But it sets [...]

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(Click to download audio.) What is Wrecking Our Lives and Giving Us Failures? For every conflict internally and out in the world at large, there is always a villain. We don t know at this point who ours is, how to identify them, how to send them packing and be free of them. All we know [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Mindset: Characters You Should Meet – to Help You On Your Journey My best friends seem to be authors I ve never met in person. Many were dead before I was born. You ve probably run into this. You re reading along and this guy or gal seems to be reading your mind as [...]

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Download this audio – Click Here. Well, I did it again. Got all snarled up in the “news” cycles – and that this started making me have a sour outlook again. Made my blog posts a bit “snarly” as well. And I use “making me” very loosely. Because you control your own thoughts or you [...]

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(Click Here to Download and Listen) The Same is Always Different, Somehow. Mindsets Change. You don t just show up somewhere after 20 years and expect everything to be the same. Time does that. Sure, the fences were still there. They had a few more patches, but were in the same place. The barn was there, [...]

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(Download this audio. Click Here.) INTRODUCTION (How to prevent mental crashes by learning to re-stack your mindset.) Have you ever had a complete melt-down, a real failure of your world-view, where the world has gone to hell and stayed there? Sad to tell you: it’s your own damned fault. What makes it worse is to [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Is This Really Just As Good As it Gets? Jack Nicholson’s character, in the movie of the same name, asks a waiting room full of other characters, What if this is as good as it gets? Then he spends the rest of the movie disproving that question. But it sets [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Mindset: Characters You Should Meet – to Help You On Your Journey My best friends seem to be authors I ve never met in person. Many were dead before I was born. You ve probably run into this. You re reading along and this guy or gal seems to be reading your mind as [...]

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(Download this audio.) What Makes An “Authority” or “Influencer”? People follow an insane amount of other people these days, most they’ve never met in person. They accept what these strangers say almost without question. What these people recommend and state as bald fact is swallowed whole. These are the influencers that marketing types constantly seek [...]

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(Click Here to Download and Listen) The Same is Always Different, Somehow. Mindsets Change. You don t just show up somewhere after 20 years and expect everything to be the same. Time does that. Sure, the fences were still there. They had a few more patches, but were in the same place. The barn was there, [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Finding Peace Accidentally Changed My World – From the Inside Out. The beginning of the end started over a year before I left. The Founder had already been gone for a few years, and the new CEO was slowly increasing his control through management lines below him. Long-serving executives got moved [...]

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(Download this audio – Click Here.) Your Beliefs Create Your Success or Failure, Depending on What You Think. We can fall on both sides of this issue. And that point is exactly where this book and its research initially started. It s too easy to consider that only fanatics have weird beliefs. And that miracles are [...]

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(Click Here to Download Audio.) It’s Perfectly OK to Be an Exceptional Success. That’s the Way You’re Wired, Anyway. This was one of those 1 AM wakeup calls. Literally. The message: it is really quite OK to be exceptional. All of our lives, we have been taught to blend in, to go along, to follow [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Mindset Quote: “We Have Met The Enemy and They is Us.” Walt Kelly had an excellent cartoon called Pogo, which had stinging commentary about the times. In one panel, he summed up where humanity s problems were coming from. As the lead character was polling his skiff across a polluted swamp, [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Is This Really Just As Good As it Gets? Jack Nicholson’s character, in the movie of the same name, asks a waiting room full of other characters, What if this is as good as it gets? Then he spends the rest of the movie disproving that question. But it sets [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Mindset: Characters You Should Meet – to Help You On Your Journey My best friends seem to be authors I ve never met in person. Many were dead before I was born. You ve probably run into this. You re reading along and this guy or gal seems to be reading your mind as [...]

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(Click to download audio.) How to Figure Things Out and Test Them For Yourself. While I was sorting out Self-Help, a funny thing happened. I wasn t sure I knew how to investigate and analyze anything. So I had to pause that study, step back, and study how to study. I had to analyze analysis. All [...]

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(Click to download this audio.) Just Go Thunk Yourself. Really, Truly. The problem with self help is that it s just too personal. For 20 years I d been working 60- and 70-hour weeks for a Syndicate, dedicated to the idea of just giving everything I had to help people improve their lives. And nothing to show [...]

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(Download this audio.) What Makes An “Authority” or “Influencer”? People follow an insane amount of other people these days, most they’ve never met in person. They accept what these strangers say almost without question. What these people recommend and state as bald fact is swallowed whole. These are the influencers that marketing types constantly seek [...]

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(Click to Download Audio.) What is the “Real World”? Is it a Mindset Result? I was supposed to be happy to return to the real world, even if I was in debt, no pension, no certificates or diplomas worth anything. That s the conventional wisdom when someone frees themselves from a cult. But after awhile, I [...]

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(Click Here to Download and Listen) The Same is Always Different, Somehow. Mindsets Change. You don t just show up somewhere after 20 years and expect everything to be the same. Time does that. Sure, the fences were still there. They had a few more patches, but were in the same place. The barn was there, [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Finding Peace Accidentally Changed My World – From the Inside Out. The beginning of the end started over a year before I left. The Founder had already been gone for a few years, and the new CEO was slowly increasing his control through management lines below him. Long-serving executives got moved [...]

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(Download this audio – Click Here.) Your Beliefs Create Your Success or Failure, Depending on What You Think. We can fall on both sides of this issue. And that point is exactly where this book and its research initially started. It s too easy to consider that only fanatics have weird beliefs. And that miracles are [...]

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Download this audio – Click Here. Is This Story Yours? Resolving a Mindset Crash… Do you see yourself here? What a person believes is important. So is selecting the foundation for a house you re building. Just as you don t build your own house on rented land, or sand, your own internal world can be accidentally [...]

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Download this audio – Click Here. Returning to Where It All Began – Resolving a Cult Mindset There I was, just starting the first leg of a 1700-mile road trip near twilight, heading away from the sunset into darkness. This wasn t my ideal time to start rebuilding my life. But it was the cards I’d [...]

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(Download this audio. Click Here.) INTRODUCTION (How to prevent mental crashes by learning to re-stack your mindset.) Have you ever had a complete melt-down, a real failure of your world-view, where the world has gone to hell and stayed there? Sad to tell you: it’s your own damned fault. What makes it worse is to [...]

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(Click Here to Download Audio.) It’s Perfectly OK to Be an Exceptional Success. That’s the Way You’re Wired, Anyway. This was one of those 1 AM wakeup calls. Literally. The message: it is really quite OK to be exceptional. All of our lives, we have been taught to blend in, to go along, to follow [...]

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(Click here to Download Audio.) Mindset Tips: The World Wants to Help You Succeed – Can You Let It? As I wrote this book, it was a journey in itself. Monsters, villains, tricksters, as well as mentors (real and virtual), helpers, and all the Heroes Journey archetypes showed up. The whole reason for this book [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Building Your Mindset Success Habits – Over to You This book (and podcast) was created to bring you up to speed. Most people have no clue how life is set up. I ve spent a lifetime sorting this out for myself. Now I ve told you what I know and told you [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Your Recipe for Building Success Habits That Work A possible approach: Decide What You Want. Write it down. (a private journal) Review it at least twice daily When you do, get the feelings that go with being or having it already. Set up a 90-day calendar so you can mark [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Choose Your Beliefs Wisely – Your Success is Always Your Choice. You won t see me telling you specifically what to believe here. Only that you do believe already. All I repeatedly ask you to do is to test everything for yourself. Test things with your own trials to see if [...]

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(Click Here to Download Audio.) Real Success Is More Than An Accident – It’s a Recipe There is a reason why all success is an exception. We ve covered it above: Your belief-choices are thoughts. How you choose predicts your results. If you keep choosing badly, you ll keep getting bad results. Any series of actions you [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) The Horror Story Called Life Can Have a Happy Ending Change Your Mindset, Change Your World There might be a light at the end of that tunnel which isn t an oncoming train. While this book has laid out the case for how destructive our world has become, it s worth reviewing [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Mindset Quote: “We Have Met The Enemy and They is Us.” Walt Kelly had an excellent cartoon called Pogo, which had stinging commentary about the times. In one panel, he summed up where humanity s problems were coming from. As the lead character was polling his skiff across a polluted swamp, [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) How I Beat Cancer and What It Cost Me – Mindset Lessons There was no your results are back, and you need to sit down. I d had a wart removed from my scalp, or that s what it felt like. And later on that year, a lump developed on that side [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Your Lack of Goals Can Sink Your Ship Using Mindset re-Stacking for Goal Achievement If you owned a ship, would you simply set the engine running, cast off all lines, and then watch from the dock to see where it ended up? You and I can agree that the chances are [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) All Good Can Be Used for Bad – Mindset Cautions As a key point worth repeating: Anything good can be used for bad. This deserves special mention. Eventually, those using anything for bad will die off. Those who are open-handedly helping others around them tend to live longer, more peaceful [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Can Faith Create the World You Want? That William James concept above has more mileage than it first appears. Let’s define faith: The conviction that something is good and true. According to Nap Hill’s Think and Grow Rich Chapter 3 on Faith, it is a form of self-created energy which can [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) The Mindset Tragedy of Opal Whiteley – Faith Before a Fall? The unique story of Opal Whiteley can give us all hope, or give us all warning. Raised in logging camps in poor surroundings, Opal was a self-trained naturalist whose playmates were the trees and wild animals of the forests [...]

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(Click to download audio.) Does Faith Create Miracles by Thought Alone? This may be the most incredible part to tell you about. In fact, though I ve read or listened to these books at least a dozen times each (many more for some) this one datum I glossed over completely until I started writing the short [...]

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(Click to download this audio.) Cause and Effect: The Self-Policing, Universal Law There is one law in this universe which cannot be broken as it s self-policing. Whatever you do to others will be done to you. Some people know this as the Golden Rule, and have memorized, Love your neighbor as yourself. But most don t [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Your Mindset Stack: Who’s Behind the Mask? The wildest breakthrough I made in researching this area has got to be this: There is a very powerful enemy that people call up in order to justify their actions. Particularly their mistakes, doubts, and fears. This enemy allows them to get away [...]

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(Click here to download audio.) Do You Become Supercharged, or a Super Villain? It’s all in your mindset… One of those hot, humid days Missouri has in summer gave me yet another clue. It was on my own bookshelf and I d never read it. Apparently, I d bought it at some point before, but never opened [...]

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(Click here for audio download.) Why Criticism Spreads Faster Than Happiness or Joy – It’s How You Stack Your Mindset Feeling bad has its own rewards. That probably is why it is so common in our society. Simply: Bucket Crabs need help to be effective. Misery loves company. The truly weird thing is that people [...]