When I was a kid I ran away from home and I was throwing a tennis ball against the wall of a supermarket. A homeless man then walked over and asked me to throw the ball to him. I did so. We threw the ball back and forth for a bit. I then told him I had to go. He said his name was Jesus and he could see that I was an angel sent from God! I thanked him and got pizza. True story. As I was ordering my pizza the cashier asked me, "What do you want on your pizza?" In that moment I realized God had just spoken to me through the cashier. God was actually saying… YOU GET TO CHOOSE HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. After I returned home my father was still mad at me, but all was right again in the world. My story is similar to a lot of religious parables. To then solidify my saintliness I just need to make vague enough predictions about the future or science that you could then use mental gymnastics to say see, "How could he have known this?! The only rational explanation must be that Anthony is indeed a walking angel sent by God!" I predict that one day there will be a basic income, world government, humanity will become a-mortal and multi-planetary, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be elected President of the United States. My predictions are more specific than ancient religious text, which means if I'm right then shouldn't I be the one you follow?! But if some of my predictions turn out to be wrong then my followers could simply write that off as a "metaphor." My followers can say something like "Saint Anthony wasn't saying Dwayne Johnson was going to be president, but simply that in all our hearts we must be the rock to our own inner United States!" Or my followers could redefine "elected". Or the more fundamentalists of my teachings could contend that "The Rock" must be in reference to someone else in the future who isn't born yet and who will take up the mantle to someday fulfill the prophesy and therefore everyone on Earth will get an unlimited amount of pizza! It would be nearly impossible to rationalize with an Anthony Fundamentalist because his logic is predicated on an irrational preposition: "I choose to believe the less likely explanation (Anthony is an Angle) over the more likely explanations (delusion, deceit, luck, imaginative, wishful thinking)". You can say things to him like, "Yea but he wasn't the only one of his time period to hold those beliefs. He wasn't right in all his predictions. If God wanted more people to believe him then why not use more convincing evidence? O.J's defense team was more persuasive." To anyone who says their god is the one true god. The question then becomes what is the goal of your god? In religions like Islam and Christianity the goal is to get humanity to believe their god is thee god. But if that ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efcgysq8htY

It was a dreary Friday in January, 1835. As Andrew Jackson stepped out of the capital building, a man walked up to him, whipped out a pistol, and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. President Jackson rushed the man. The man then pulled out another pistol and at point blank range fired again. It also misfired. Jackson then proceeded to beat the man with his cain until the secret service pulled the 67 year old president off of the failed assassin. Both guns were later tested and were discovered to be in working order. There was a 1 in 125,000 chance of both guns misfiring! The moist air is believed to have clogged the gun power. After Andrew Jackson returned home to the White House, one can imagine him leaning back in an armchair and pondering his near death. I try to live my life as if death might come for me at any moment. — Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was not a stranger to death. Over the course of his life, it’s believed he partook in as many as 103 duels! I was born for a storm, and a calm does not suit me. — Andrew Jackson One time he was shot square in the chest and yet he maintained his composure as he fired back. Someone ran up to him and asked how he could remain so calm and Jackson responded… If he had shot me through the brain, sir, I should still have killed him. Andrew Jackson also confronted death on the battlefield. He was the major general during the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 where the British suffered 2000 causalities and the Americans 8. His wartime success catapulted him into The United States Presidency. He also courageously confronted power. As president he wanted to end the national bank because he saw it as a threat to freedom, but it had many well-financed proponents who threatened to destroy Jackson’s reputation and presidency. The bank…is trying to kill me, but I will kill it! — Andrew Jackson The people of his day disputed his intelligence and temperament, but no one disputed his courage. His courage wasn’t an absence of fear. I have always been afraid of banks. — Andrew Jackson His courage was despite it. He did what he thought was right regardless of the consequences to his life, finances, or reputation. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. How to Have Andrew Jackson Courage | The Andrew Jackson Courage Tactic Make things personal. Whenever a major event happened to him he would take it personally, which spurred him into action! When his family died during the American Revolution due to disease, thereby making Andrew Jackson an orphan at age 14, he blamed their death on the British. When his wife died of a heart attack at the start of his presidency, Andrew Jackson blamed her death on t ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lqQMDbjFmg

As entrepreneurs, self-starters, and business owners we dictate our own hours. Often we can overwork ourselves. I argue that not only is it bad for us to skip vacations, but it is also bad for business. Sometimes we feel like if we just threw more hours into our work that it would solve everything, but sometimes taking time off is the best way to retool and refocus. 1) 0:36 Serves as a Powerful Deadline So before your vacation, mini-vacation, staycation, get clear about what you want to accomplish before that date hits. This personally gives me a big productivity boost and I feel like I am most motivated before a deadline. 2) 0:54 Excited for the Future with Wish-List While we’re in the midst of our work, doing the grind and hustle (that should be a dance move) - things pop into our heads or we see something that we want to do, "Oh I want to see that movie, or show, or do that thing, etc." Instead of doing it. Write it down on your wish-list. This will give you excitement for the future. 3) 1:21 Guilt-Free As entrepreneurs we don’t have a clear 9-5 schedule so if we aren’t working we feel guilty. By taking a vacation we give ourselves permission to take a break. Procrastination is unplanned. Vacations are planned. 4) 1:39 Recharge Willpower Research shows that willpower is like a muscle. If you don’t exercise it - it won’t get strong. But just like our regular muscles you can overwork it and deplete its strength. That’s why at night we find it most difficult to avoid our cravings. 5) 2:23 New Source of Inspiration While you’re on vacation, break some of your routines. If you go to the gym 6-7 times a week like I do then maybe don’t workout that weekend. Don’t look at your work. Don’t respond to email. Try new foods, meet new people, do new things. I think going away is great, but if that's impossible then you can still make these adjustments at home. Lock yourself out of your office if you have to. 6) 3:03 Fresh Eyes After returning from Miami this weekend I got a whole host of ideas just by playing with my website again. My eyes and brain had become adjusted to them so I didn’t see the problem the first time. Prepare for big updates at Live to Challenge this week! BLOG POST http://www.livetochallenge.com/posts/6-good-reasons-why-vacation-boosts-motivation-productivity LIVE TO CHALLENGE http://www.livetochallenge.com LIVE TO CHALLENGE BLOG http://www.livetochallenge.com/blog LIVE TO CHALLENGE FACEBOOK PAGE http://www.facebook.com/livetochallenge ANTHONY GALLI INSTAGRAM http://www.instagram.com/rallywithgalli ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_mQqsgHpc

The 25 year old Russian Tsar decided to travel Europe. But as a reigning monarch, his journey would be swamped with pomp and ceremony. To avoid this formality he decided to travel incognito so he could focus on the thing he really wanted to do… learn. “I am a pupil and need to be taught.” — Peter the Great Upon arriving to Amsterdam, he partied hard like your typical twenty-something backpacker, but he also worked hard as an undercover shipbuilder. Despite binge drinking every night, Peter would arrive to the shipyard every day at dawn with his axe and tools slung over his shoulder like the other workmen. Peter worked here for 4 months to learn how to build a navy for Russia someday. Then during lunch, he’d like to sit on a log by the dock and talk to sailors or pretty much anyone who addressed him as “Carpenter Peter”. “Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.” — Peter the Great It was a poorly kept secret that the 6′ 8″ Russian, with an entourage of 250 Russian nobles, was indeed the Tsar. There was also a joke swirling around that the Russians were no more than “baptized bears.” On one occasion, two English noblemen came to the dock to catch a glimpse of the Tsar and in order to point out which one was him, the foreman called out, “Carpenter Peter, why don’t you help your comrades?” Without a word, Peter walked over, put his shoulder beneath a timber that several men were struggling to raise and helped lift it into place. “You see, brother, that I am tsar, yet there are callous places on my hands, because I wished to give you an example.” — Peter the Great Peter’s curiosity extended beyond the shipyard, he visited factories, laboratories, workshops, sawmills, paper mills, museums, and gardens. Everywhere he asked “What is this for?” “How does it work?” Listening to the explanations, he’d nod, “Very good. Very good.” He also dissected the dead, but one time, while studying a corpse, he heard grumbles of disgust from some of his squeamish Russian comrades. Furious, and to the horror of the Dutch, he ordered the Russians to approach, bend down, and bite off a muscle with their teeth. “It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself. ” When Peter returned home from his 18 month euro trip, he immediately began reforming his country according to what he had saw. “I intend to imitate Amsterdam in my city of Saint Petersburg.” — Peter the Great He received a lot of backlash, but Peter kept his sights on the horizon, directing the Russian ship of state toward westernization, and in time, transforming Russia from Europe’s backwards step-brother in ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qD6FqDqR-Y