Author Archives: Mike Reining

Prior to MindValley Media, Mike was the Head of New Ventures Strategy at eBay where he conceived of the strategies that led to the investment in Craigslist, the launch of Kijiji.com and the acquisition of Skype. Mike has an MBA from Stanford and previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group. He is also a certified Google AdWords Professional.
March 17, 2010

GratitudeLog Smiley’s

by Mike Reining
Published in: GratitudeLog.com
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A lot of you have asked how to add more smiley’s to your posts on GLOG.  Well, here is a link to down­load a zip file with ALL smi­leys that GLOG now sup­ports.  Have fun!
http://www.mediafire.com/?rykvjdwzein

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March 2, 2010

What’s Your Personal Declaration?

by Mike Reining
Published in: Goals & Motivation, Meditation
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I have a few things to declare right now that I must share with you:
1) I am a global author­ity on how to build a world class team and a thriv­ing heart cen­tered busi­ness.
2) Our busi­ness is always highly prof­itable, runs on auto-pilot, and we are always launch­ing new hit prod­ucts and web­sites to spread enlight­ened ideas.
3) […]

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February 7, 2010

GratitudeLog Buttons

by Mike Reining
Published in: GratitudeLog.com
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Here are a cou­ple of Grat­i­tude­Log but­tons for your blog or website.

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February 1, 2010

How to Get Things Done?

by Mike Reining
Published in: Habits, Productivity & Organization
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I have been fol­low­ing a very sim­ple sys­tem to stay on top of my ambi­tious to do list.
1) At the begin­ning of every month I come up with my key goals that I plan to accom­plish for that month
2) At the begin­ning of every sin­gle day I write down my MITs (most impor­tant tasks).  These MITs have […]

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Discover Your Signature Strengths

by Mike Reining
Published in: Habits, Happiness
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In this excel­lent Philoso­pher­sNotes TV Episode Brian John­son explores the ori­gins of Pos­i­tive Psych and how to get your sig­na­ture strengths on!

Here are my top 5 sig­na­ture strengths:
1. Courage to pur­sue my dreams
2. Pas­sion for learn­ing
3. Integrity
4. Authen­tic­ity
5. Cre­ativ­ity
What are your top 5 strengths?
Guess which one is glar­ingly miss­ing on my list? Grat­i­tude
I have […]

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The How of Happiness (explained)

by Mike Reining
Published in: Habits, Happiness
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After watch­ing this video… who is ready to keep a grat­i­tude jour­nal on Grat­i­tude­Log? 
PS: If you dig this video… you can get more at http://tv.philosophersnotes.com/

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What are you grateful for today?

by Mike Reining
Published in: Happiness
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A lot of peo­ple ask me… how do I best get started express­ing grat­i­tude?
My answer is always the same.
If you are not sure what to write or what to be grate­ful for, then the best place to start is to check out the com­mu­nity on Grat­i­tude­Log.
http://www.gratitudelog.com/community
I visit this page at least once per day to get […]

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