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Do you see how I’m standing? It’s because I have a broken ankle in this picture. In another speech in another state just before this one, I had to be carried on stage because I had crutches we bought at Walgreens and I hadn’t seen a doctor yet. I was climbing in Yosemite with my family and broke my ankle. @natalienorton had to carry me on her back down the mountain in the dark. No joke. She’s legit. Life is never easy. You never know what’s going to happen. I get email and message and email and message and email and message about tragedies, hard things, crap. I welcome them. I think people feel comfortable sharing because I’m comfortable sharing and perhaps because of our tragedies I can relate. One thing I know is that comparing hardships is worthless. It’s all hard. It all sucks. Ironically, sometimes people downplay their hardships because they think it may not be as bad as someone else. Don’t disservice yourself. Acknowledge your pain. Acknowledge others. Sometimes the best way to help someone who is hurting is simply to hurt along with them. I don’t mean get hurt. I mean mourn. Just feel what people feel and suddenly when people feel felt or heard, they miraculously start to heal. Feeling heard is the best medicine anyone can give. Think of your kids when they fall down and cry. The moment you acknowledge and kiss the booboo, all is well. See people. Love is more about respect than anything else. Stand on your own stage and tell your story as a way to heal, help others heal and make meaning with your experiences. Social media is a stage, a tv, a radio and a newspaper rolled into one. You’re better, more experienced and more powerful than you know. Own it. We need you. We want you. We’re listening. #richienorton #entrepreneur #ruckuslist click the link in profile to watch the live webinar. Disappears... (at One Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnOSY_OncGz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18o2o5pnufea2

Want to give your all to a worthy cause, business or project? Here’s the secret: Say no to stuff. It’s painful. It’s confusing. It’s ugly. But it’s the right thing. As Drucker says, “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing. 😮 I’ve written a lot about starting things. What about when it’s time to stop? Is it ever okay to quit? Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out. There’s a difference between casual quitting and strategic quitting. Casual quitting is lazy. It’s when you quit because you don’t want to do the work. Casual quitting can lead to significant loss. Strategic quitting is smart. It’s when you end something because it’s part of a larger plan to take advantage of greater opportunities. Typically, you strategically quit because you’ve done your research, thoroughly tested the idea and evaluated the opportunity and discovered it’s a dead end. Strategic quitting can lead to significant gains. As Seth Godin says in The Dip: A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit, “Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations.” So, if you’re gonna quit, make quitting a part of your larger vision for the future. The same way you’d sacrifice a pawn in chess “in the hopes of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms.” Ultimately, whatever you decide is a decision that you have to make (and live with) on your own. So before you make that decision, ask yourself this one question: Are you giving up or are you strategically quitting? ☺️ Here’s the deal: Life’s short. There are many ways to make a living and a difference in this world. Quit smart. Happy (guilt-free) quitting! #richienorton #ruckuslist #oahu #motivation #entrepreneur #happy #hawaii (at Oahu Life) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnngAj4nofH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l917xzb5sgce

💧 We were playing in the rain at Ruby Beach in Washington on the peninsula near Forks where vampires and wolves unite in love in the rainforest. My ankle was broken and I was using crutches to leap over the biggest logs that life has to offer. We had a blast. We’d traveled coast to coast and were on our way up the coast from Mexico slooowly making our way to Canada. We found a football that had washed ashore and were tossing it back and forth. Here’s what I learned looking back: 💧 WORK TO LIVE. NOT LIVE TO WORK. 💧 My family has experienced the death of a brother, the death of a son, the absence of three foster children that returned to bio-mom, my wife lost her memory (stroke?…it came back) and a son that got run over and destroyed by an SUV (he lived!). Each time we’ve taken EXTRA LONG 2–6 month or more long vacations. 💧 My work is mobile and literally designed to be done from my mobile phone. I get not everyone has that luxury. However, we also take many mini-breaks and even breaks in the day. Life feels like one big vacation with a bunch of tragedies in between. Sounds terrible, right? Well, that’s life. 💧 Turns out vacation as a healing agent is not an anomaly, it’s a scientific fact of life. 💧 The time to be alone or with loved ones “away from it all” has healed and continues to be a healing factor for us. 💧 Check this out from my recent article “Extend Your Vacation, Extend Your Life with these 5 Science-Based Facts” 1. Research says vacationing is good for your health. 2. Research says breaks are better for our brains and productivity than overtime. 3. Research says workaholics have a 30% higher risk of heart disease. Workaholics also are at risk for high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and obesity. 4. Research says anticipation of the vacation is good for your mental health. 5. Research says vacations improve mental health. I help people create businesses that create life freedom for greater life experience, not another job. Comment with 🔥 if you agree. Tag someone you want to do life. Link in profile for free training. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi #travel #entrepreneur #richienorton (at Ruby Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnqDsDcHBOE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wcllf555i4sl

A life fueled by family, friends and fun = Freedom. Swam across the bay to those slides and to the other side. I love Spain. Could live here. 🇪🇸 🌞 Let’s get on the same page about the definition of “happiness.’ Scientists often use the word “happiness” and “well-being” interchangeably. 🌞 Researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky says happiness is “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” 🌞 What does happiness mean to you? Please comment below with insights on what makes you happy. Wouldn’t it be cool to see where we are all coming from in life and grow together? 1. 🎈 Hire stuff out. “We want to seem like we have it all together and we might be therefore resistant to spending money on timesaving purchases even when we can afford it.” — Professor Ashley Whillans 2. 🎈Hang out. “Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism.” — Robert Waldinger 3. 🎈Show gratitude. “Gratitude is an attainment associated with emotional maturity.” 4. 🎈Focus on “meaning,” not happiness. “You draw meaning from a larger context, so you need to look beyond yourself to find the purpose in what you’re doing.” — Roy Baumeister 5. 🎈 RESPECT YOURSELF = RESPECT OTHERS = BE RESPECTED. “In a series of four experiments, researchers found that it is the level of respect and admiration we receive from peers — not overall wealth or success — that more likely predicts happiness. They refer to this level of respect and admiration as our “sociometric status,” as opposed to socioeconomic status (SES).” (Berkeley) #nortonsdostuff #richieandnatalie #ruckuslist #richienorton #entrepreneur (at San Sebastián, Pais Vasco, Spain)

Believe in yourself, and they’ll tell you you’re naïve. Believe in yourself anyway. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”― Muhammad Ali What’s your self-belief? Believe that you can. Why not? Why believe that you can’t? When you believe you can, your mind will find a way to make it happen. Level up your thinking, level up your life, dispel limiting beliefs. Succeed despite the odds, and they’ll say it was a fluke. Fluke it up anyway. Want this whole training recorded with a live audience? Click link in bio! Tag someone who could benefit. 🙏 #richienorton #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #ruckuslist (at Planet Earth)

Would you be willing to take a pay cut to have freedom over your time? Adam would...but he’s now making 4x on his own than what he made at his corporate job! Hahha!! So dope. Adam Buchanan reached out to me years ago after reading one of my books (Resumes Are Dead) which he told me helped him land a cool job. A few years after that he reached out and hired me to help him leave his job and start his own thing. I spoke at a live workshop and Adam was there. I randomly called him from the crowd to share his story. It's powerful. Adam is powerful. He's become an incredible friend and the mentoring roles have flipped. I turn to him for help with brand deals and social media. @adam_buchanan is amazing. 💯 WOW: This is a short clip of a workshop that I gave with Thiefaine Magré and Jase Bennett about creating a business you own (and doesn't own you) so you have freedom of choice, time and location. People had to apply to get in for the 2 hour meeting (people stayed for 3 almost 4 hours to chat). It was expensive ($1,000) if you paid without being accepted through the application process. DO YOU WANT A COPY OF THIS FOR FREE? I've had it transcribed and made pretty now. It was well documented from various angles by Anthony Ambriz at Digital Creators. TYPE: "YES" below and tag people who need this. I’ll do a free consult with whoever tags the most people. Click link in bio for the free video. IF you want me to get you access (limited time only because it will likely become a paid offer). I reward my Insta-friends. :-) Link in bio. #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #richienorton ... (at Heaven On Earth.)

Today a client sent me a message saying they made $250k at an 80% margin on their own in the last 18 months. No employees. Just a lifestyle business that can be run from anywhere, anytime. My daily view looks something like this along the North Shore. Its important to put yourself in a position to be inspired. To breathe. The ocean does this for me. Travel does this for me. Newness does this for me. Experiencing something different does this for me. What inspires you? // I love business coaching. I got started in it because people asked me questions. The rest isn’t history...the rest is making clients make history happen. Nothing could be more important to any business than a coach that you can trust to get you results. #richienorton #ruckuslist // message me if you’re ready to start something knew and wiling to invest in yourself. My ROI90 program is expensive, but results-driven. // Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurlife (at North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii)

This is a rare moment when no one is around with a real monk at the ancient Shaolin Temple in China where Kung Fu started. Can you feel the sacred vibe? // Can I teach you something important? 🙏 The ONE question to success that works 100% of the time: STOP asking "How do I do this?" START asking, "Who knows how to do this?" Just saved you probably hundreds of thousands in cash or opportunity cost and years maybe decades or even a lifetime of wasted effort. You're welcome. #richienorton #entrepreneur #ruckuslist #prouduct (at Shaolin Temple Kung Fu School China)