There is an 89.65% chance that you won’t need
any of this advice until much later in life. One of youth’s benefits for most Americans is good health and an optimistic outlook on the future. According to a World Health Organization study in 2013, the probability of premature death for Americans aged between 15 to 60 years is 10.35% (13.0% for men and 7.7% for females). That means that 89.65% of Americans that reach age 15 will Continue Reading
Your personal story is about to conclude another chapter. Just like being engrossed in a good book, you don’t usually analyze the last chapter because you’re eager to discover what’s next.
Unlike a good book, you’re the author of your personal story. What twists and turns do you want in your future chapters?
During this time of year it’s common for many articles to focus on how to make next year 
better and more productive. Yet, so few encourage you to understand why this last year counts towards your personal story.
My challenge to you is to slow down and take a look at your calendars from the past year and list out the significant events – good and bad – and define why this last year mattered.
Well-Rounded Success’ first ever exercise is free and if you click this link, you’ll have access to print it to complete on your own.
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What do you need to do to reach your milestone? You already know.
Goals, dreams, aspirations, and future accomplishments are in your sights, yet, so many of you let insecurity and uncertainty prevent you from taking necessary action. That very mindset plagues me as well. However, a commitment to persevere can motivate you to conquer one milestone after another.
Disclaimer: You won’t find any tricks in this writing which identify shortcuts to reach milestones any easier. You’ll only find principles to help you along the way. It’s your job to work hard so you can look back on that daunting task that proved challenging and know with pride that you earned that milestone! Continue Reading
In my businesses, gaining trust is important.
You don’t gain trust by sitting in your office, waiting for the phone to ring or an email to arrive in your inbox. You gain trust by adding value to the relationships that you intentionally preserve.
I chose to lead this YoungPro Elite Chapter since I’m proactively growing my businesses and searching for new opportunities and clients.
YoungPro Elite also gives me the opportunity to grow professionally.
I’m lucky that numerous mentors, who are older than I am, sit down with me to give me their advice, but there is a lifestyle gap in these meetings. These mentors are mentors because…
Read More at YounPro Elite’s blog by clicking on this link: The Benefits of Becoming a YoungPro Elite Chapter President
September is nearing an end and this month proved eventful. Here are some other highlights from this last month:
Denver YoungPro Elite: Second Chapter Meeting
YoungPro Elite kicked off our second Chapter Meeting and pushed our young professional participants to commit to writing down their personal vision and goals.
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A phrase is tossed around with great intentions, yet few truly take advantage of its mantra. You read it on numerous motivational materials which inspire people to follow the message by trusting superstition. Now let’s discuss this phrase:
“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
You know what many people qualify as hard work? You cold call hundreds of people disrupting their lives or leaving messages on their answering machines. You put your head down to build spreadsheet after spreadsheet with masterful formulas to impress someone that notices, “Wow, you put a lot of effort into this.” Or, you join meeting after meeting where you leave with a perplexed attitude because you ponder why your attendance was necessary.
I mention these three examples of typical “hard work” because how do these responsibilities advance your career?
Hard Work Creates …
Hard work means getting tasks done for your Continue Reading
The most exhilarating realization happens when you accept your role in the world. Recently, on an Under30Experiences adventure in Peru, a theme emerged to help me understand myself better:
To truly understand yourself takes effort through your own…
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To no surprise, Thesaurus.com explains “Well-Rounded” as excellent. The British dictionary defines “Well-Rounded” as the adjective: full, varied, and satisfying a well-rounded life.
My motto, Well-Rounded Success, motivates me to live each day with purpose and intention. This phrase has inspired me to analyze what’s important to me over the last few months. It is my honor to explain this mission that motivates me and I hope to recruit some other like-minded people to join this journey towards Well-Rounded Success. Continue Reading
A friend forwarded me information about an upcoming music festival which had one of my old favorite bands as the headliner. I looked at the link and had no desire to go. I quickly reflected, “That was a fun phase.”
My mindset has drastically shifted since those mosh pit days where I now enjoy going to see music with reserved seats. My twenty-year old self would call me out for being a square, but you know what twenty-year old Dan, I ENJOY BEING A SQUARE! I rather sit down and enjoy watching a band play with the Colorado Symphony than bash into other mosh pit participants.
Favorite vacation spots, hobbies, hair styles, music tastes, and other daily habits enter our lives with importance and then are nostalgically, or embarrassingly, reflected upon by our older selves.
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You ready for a story? The day after my fiancée and I became engaged, we were driving back home in separate cars. We pulled off the highway and she navigated the traffic quicker than I due to my “grandpa” driving habits. I then became halted in stopped traffic with sirens up ahead in the distance.
I panicked. Is my fiancée hurt up there? I noticed that the far-right lane was moving while every other lane was stopped. In my fear, I cut off one of the moving vehicles so I could witness the reason for the sirens to see if my fiancée was hurt.
Turns out, I cut off a funeral procession. Oops. The person behind me honked and screamed after I cut them off and I now know why. This motorist and the onlookers viewed me as a jerk and I admit, what I did was a very low move. However, my point is that our culture needs to give strangers benefit of the doubt. Continue Reading
Daniel C. Andrews 