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Hi andyliuteacher,

If part of the title of this newsletter seems familiar, you've
probably heard it before from John Wooden, arguably the
greatest college basketball coach of all time. As you all
know, I'm a big fan of his work not just because he was
the coach for the school I graduated from, but because
of his entire philosophy and the results that stemmed from it.
I thought it would be a good time to bring up Coach Wooden
and write about one of his greatest pieces of advice:

Make each day a masterpiece.

The reason why I chose this particular piece of advice is because it
gives you a whole new outlook on just how valuable a day really is.

Most people "sleep walk" through the weekdays in order to
live for the weekends, only to sleep walk through the weekdays
again and then through life in general and wonder where all
the time went.

Striving to make each day a masterpiece is important because
it gives a day that much more value in your eyes and because
it does just that, you learn to appreciate and respect a day
that much more so you don't sleep walk through it and it also
makes you want to figure out how you can get the most out
of that day.

Now, one way to talk about how to make each day a
masterpiece is to give a set of guidelines.

For example, to make each day a masterpiece, you could
say - wake up early, exercise, read, be courteous to others,
get things done on your to do list, etc. and that's certainly
one way to make each day a masterpiece.

However, I'm going to approach it in a slightly different angle
and sum up how to make each day a masterpiece with this.

Know how to make the next day a better masterpiece.

In order to know how to make the next day a better
masterpiece, it would be wise at the end of the day,
to take some time to reflect back on your day and
notice some of the good and bad things about that day.

For example, you might have noticed that when you worked
out in the early morning, you had energy throughout the
day. So you make a note to yourself to wake up early
and work out again to get the same results.

You also noticed that you didn't get much done today
because you watched too much TV, so you make a note
to record them and watch them over the weekend instead.

So what happens as a result of this end of the day reflection
is that you know how to make the next day a better
masterpiece - you know that you should exercise in the
morning to get energy, and that you should tape your
weekday TV shows to watch over the weekend to save
time. Seems simple and obvious enough right? Here's the
best part.

When you repeat this process of reflection and identifying
what made that day a masterpiece and what you could've
done that day to make that day a masterpiece and incorporate
those elements into the next day, you discover new ways on
how to make a day a masterpiece.

Soon, you'll start adding more things to make the next day
a better masterpiece - drinking water instead of soda,
writing down ideas when they hit so you don't forget,
reading a new book to get more ideas, etc.

So what happens is that by doing this, you build a strong
foundation of habits that allow you to constantly innovate
and learn new ways on how to make tomorrow a better day.

You see, most people are stuck at constantly trying to
build a foundation of habits because they don't take each
day seriously to make it a masterpiece. They don't try their
best and they don't reflect at the end of the day to see
what they can learn from it to make the next day even
better. To them, a day is just that - a day. They start,
but then leave the foundation alone for a couple of weeks,
only to try to build at it again and fail.

They exercise for a day, but then not the next day or the
day after that. Because they fail to exercise, they don't
have as high energy levels so their productivity drops,
depression sets in, and they can't get things done. It's not
enough to survive. You've got to squeeze all you can out of
that day to see what made it a good day and apply those
elements to the next.

I know the logic might be a little fuzzy here so I want to show
the clear logical path of what I'm taking about.

Make each day a masterpiece.

How?

Know how to make the next day a better masterpiece.

How?

Reflect at the end of the day and figure out what you did
that helped make that day a masterpiece and what you
didn't that would've made that day a masterpiece as well.

Incorporate those elements of a masterpiece in the next day.

Because you incorporated those elements the next day,
that will lead you to find new ways to make that day a masterpiece.

You identify those new ways at the end of the day and
then incorporate them the next day and that will then
lead you to find additional new ways to make that day
a masterpiece and as a result, a strong foundation of
habits is built and a favorable cycle emerges.

So going back to the previous example - you incorporate
exercise and the taping of TV shows the next day. Result?

You have energy to do things again and you also freed up
some time because you taped TV shows instead of watching
them. What do you do with that free time? You read a book.
You then get a great idea because you read that book.

When you reflect back on that day, you realize how important
reading was to you because it helped generate a great idea
so you incorporate that additional element into the next day.

The next day, you exercise, tape the TV shows, read, and
then you find some great advice on how to network with
people in the book you read that day. You apply that networking
information and that leads you to a new valuable contact which
can greatly help you.

You reflect back on that day and then realize the power of
networking.

Do you see where this is going? You soon develop habits of
exercising, reducing TV time, reading, networking, etc - and
it just gets better each and everyday and as you constantly
reflect at the end of the day to see what elements made that
day a masterpiece and you take those elements and incorporate
them into the next day (as well as the previous ones) which
helps solidify them into habits - you always exercise, read,
network at every opportunity, etc., everyday - and when you
build great foundational habits like that - it just opens up so
many more doors and new ways to discover how to make the
next day a greater masterpiece.

When you figure out what made today a masterpiece and
apply that to the next day, you'll find the next day always
gets better than the day before. :)
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Here are just a few articles I've written that you
might've missed that I'm sure will help you move forward toward
your goals.

1. Don't Forget to Train Other Areas of Your Life

2. Don't Fall Into the Trap of Only Reading Tips on Self Improvement

3. Be Grateful For Your Problems: Be VERY Grateful

And of course if you haven't yet picked up a copy of my book,
you can do so by clicking the link below.

http://www.briankim.net/hiddensecret.php

The information in there as several readers have said - priceless.

Until then, keep at it. Your success is natural. You already have
everything you need within you to achieve your goals.

It's just a matter of time.
Invest in yourself and make it happen.
Brian Kim
http://www.briankim.net

18653 Ventura Blvd #542 Tarzana, CA 91356
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