What are the dreams and goals that you want to accomplish in this lifetime? They can be small objectives or big hairy audacious goals but take the time to think of three specific goals; one for your personal life, one professional, and finally, one family or community goal. It's essential to select balanced objectives instead of only choosing all business/career goals to balance your life. If one area of your life is struggling, it will eventually impact the others. Take the time to ponder what are the most critical goals to accomplish in the next 90 days. It's essential to think about goals that can be completed at that time because, as humans, we tend to lose focus and momentum after three months. If a goal is going to take longer, break it up into smaller milestones that can be completed in 90 days.

Do you want to be more creative, happier and satisfied with your life? The first ten minutes you are awake and the last ten minutes before you go to sleep hold one of the life-hacks to success. In these brief windows, your subconscious is a sponge absorbing the energy it's exposed to. Rather than filling your head with negativity from the daily news or starting your day stressfully by reading emails as soon as you wake, be mindful of this short window as it impacts your mental wellbeing.

What are you going to do with today? I am not asking what busy work, honey-do list, or random everyday tasks you have to complete. What will you do today to reach your boundless potential and progress towards living your best life? Benjamin Franklin would start every day by asking himself this question:

The world's most successful people share many of the same habits and rituals. It's not a coincidence that world champion athletes, successful serial entrepreneurs, and artists leverage the same techniques to reach their goals. Here are the practices that you can adopt to be happier and more successful in your own life.

In a number of our past Connections events, the topic of breathwork - using breathing techniques to find calm - has come up as a frequently used mental health resource. So, we decided to host an event on the topic, just to see what techniques are most often used by entrepreneurs, and what benefits they get from using them.

Stillness is the state of being still, and it’s often synonymous with quietness, silence, calmness, and inactivity. Many entrepreneurs speak of the benefits of achieving stillness as a balance to living a busy entrepreneurial life. Those benefits vary from founder to founder, but the ways in which we all achieve stillness are more or less the same.

Whether you find stillness through meditation, walks in nature, or listening to the sounds of running water, there’s no doubt that the practice should be a part of your daily routine, if it’s not already. Here are four benefits to achieving stillness.

Our latest Connections event was all about the spirit of the season: Gratitude.

We asked entrepreneurs whether gratitude and appreciation were part of their regular routine. We discussed the benefits of having a gratitude practice and we shared some of the things we’re most grateful for this year. Here are the top 6 ways entrepreneurs incorporate gratitude in their routine.

We recently held our very first female-focused Connections event where we discussed some of the challenges women often face as entrepreneurs and how we’ve overcome those challenges - or how we continue to overcome them.

We asked the attending entrepreneurs to name one professional challenge they’ve recently faced as a direct result of being a female founder, how they responded to that challenge, and who helped in their response.

Our latest Connections event was all about the spirit of the season: Gratitude.

We asked entrepreneurs whether gratitude and appreciation were part of their regular routine. We discussed the benefits of having a gratitude practice and we shared some of the things we’re most grateful for this year. Here are the top 6 ways entrepreneurs incorporate gratitude in their routine.

We thought it fitting to discuss the concept of emergency tools during our Connections event. By emergency tools, we mean those tools that you turn to in moments of extreme anxiety, stress, or depression. These are the tools that help you right-size, recover your momentum, and get you back on track to your goals. Here are 7 tools that our participating entrepreneurs use to find calm and happiness in trying moments.

Most of us go into entrepreneurship with some notion that we will leave the world a better place. We think that the innovation we inspire will improve humanity, and that the riches we accumulate will be put to good use for benevolent causes. Along that journey, don’t forget the here and now. Recognize the risk that the stress of entrepreneurship brings.

It's possible to manifest your best life through visualization. You can attract a new career that aligns with your Ikigai, have connected relationships, and even the home you want. All possibilities in the quantum field exist in the present moment as electromagnetic potentials. Where attention goes, energy flows. By aligning our intentions and emotions, we create new energy inside ourselves that is the same frequency as the future we want to attract.

What have you always wanted to accomplish? Do you dream of a new career? Maybe you want to change your lifestyle through a better diet/exercise. All of your aspirations are possible, but they will require dedication, time, and hard work. Just knowing what's necessary to reach your goal isn't enough. If knowledge equaled results, everyone would have six-pack abs. The hardest part of getting on the path to achieving any goal is the beginning. When you think about the life you want to have, ask yourself this question; "Is today day one, or are you going to start one day?" The only difference is where you put a single word.

Aaron Houghton hit rock bottom after he had all the money in the world. He knew he needed to change. And so he spent time thinking about how to do that. In the end, Aaron realized that the process that helped him build massive companies might also help keep him sane. And so he started Founders First.

Entrepreneurs are often held up as pillars of mental fortitude. To many people the ability to overcome adversity is seen as the backbone of success. But most founders will tell you, confidence is not always their default setting.

Habit is the foundation of most of our days. That’s no surprise. We get up at the same time, take the same commute, get the same coffee order. But some thinking habits can be detrimental to our success. These are often called thinking errors.

Everyone is bound to run into stress and anxiety in life, but it’s how you react to it that will set you apart. Accepting anxiety as something you will inevitably face is the first step to conquering it.

Many business leaders can feel like they are alone in the wilderness when they first start out. Developing a community of peers to learn from can be a major component of success for an entrepreneur. We’ve gathered seven easy tactics from fellow entrepreneurs on how to stay calm while chasing success.

Meditating for a sound mind is nothing new, but did you know it can also improve your workplace productivity? Getting a peak performance out of your employees can be a challenge—they don’t have as much invested as you do. But mediation can help your team refocus valuable energy in a calm, healthy way.

Sitting quietly may not be a go-to activity for most entrepreneurs. High functioning business leaders tend to be masters of multi-tasking and that ability to hold space for multiple thoughts and ideas at once is one of the keys to success. But mastering the art of stillness when you want to can reap huge rewards for personalities that are constantly “on”.