Spark Show with Grant Sparks

Spark Show ep. 268: Do Entrepreneurs Chase Shiny Objects or Is It Strategy, 3 Wasp Stings, Ionic Ears! & Other News!

How can you support the entrepreneurs who seem to chase shiny objects? There is a useful framework for knowing how entrepreneurs actually keep irons in fire in case your partners don't live up to their commitments.

80 - 90% of all businesses fail in the first 5 years. So, how do entrepreneurs manage those statistics? Here is how?

📗 'The Top 100 Dream Igniter' by Grant Sparks

Spark Show ep. 267: Making Your Own Map to Happiness🗺, Shooting Stars, Hidden Van Gogh & Other News!

• The Trick of Current Maps to Happiness!
• How to Make Your Own Map to Happiness!
• A Broke Depression-Era Executive's Success
• Shooting Stars Everywhere!
• Van Gogh's Map For Himself!

#goals #success #explodesignificance #personaldevelopment #sparkedlife #dreambig #smallbusiness #bliss #boldness #livingyourdream #crypto #adhdbizowner #financialfreedom #cardano #bitcoin #nft #metaverse

Spark Show ep. 265: July 4th Freedom Special, How to Get Freedom Wrong AND Right, Anishinaabe Water Art & Other News!

TRIGGER WARNING: I touch too awful close to political themes in this one. Stick it out. Trust me. It is worth it.

• How you get Freedom wrong most of the time.
• How we can get Freedom RIGHT for ourselves and others!
• A Water Magic Denim Jacket⛈
• Is the Earth Hotter Closer to the Sun or Further Away??🪐

Spark Show ep. 264: Black Elk & Entering Eternity Now, Crawling Clay to the Center of the World, AI Goes to Court & Other News!

Spark Show ep. 263: Success Optical Illusions, Loving Paradoxes, Planetary Parade, Artist Koons on the Moon & Other News!

Many people are seemingly stuck between two paradigms that seem opposed. On one hand, if one gets too goals-focused, they could miss out on serendipity. On the other hand, if they only chase serendipity then they could miss out on success that only comes from goals and planning!

• Gestalt Optical Illusions Help W/ Goals 🔎
• 5 Planets Aligned w/ Summer Solstice!
• 125 Jeff Koons Moons on the Moon! 🌒
• Goals and No Goals; at the same time!

Spark Show ep. 262: Olympic Mental Rehearsal, Your Much-Needed Fantasy, NASA Hell Dive, & Other News!

• Learn the mental tool that Olympian Lyndon Rush uses for bobsledding!
• You're Doing It, Already! You're Just Doing It Wrong!
• NASA's HELL DIVE
• Let Them Throw Cake, At Mona Lisa,.. For climate change??

If Olympians pay trainers to help them develop this high skill for success, can you also at least try mental rehearsal to get more success in your business, more success in your fitness, really more success in your habits, your relationships, the outcomes you want.

A lot of people are dismissive of mental rehearsal.

They're dismissive of internal mental tools because what they think is that we're trying to ignore problems. We being teachers of positive thinking. We are not teaching people to ignore problems. We're going to address this. Now I've got four quick steps here to encourage you to revisit fantasy, to fact and mental rehearsal.

Feel Free Instantly!, Art Guard , March Conjunction & Other Sparked News!

• You can feel & be free instantly! But you probably won't, so...
• Spark Framework for Freedom!
• Go outside NOW to see the March Conjunction!
• How Art Guards would pick an art exhibit!
• My TEDx 2010 Experience

#goals #success #explodesignificance #personaldevelopment #sparkedlife #dreambig #smallbusiness #bliss #boldness #livingyourdream #crypto #adhdbizowner #financialfreedom

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'The Top 100 Dream Igniter' by Grant Sparks.

From growing up in a mobile home, to owning a growing real estate investment empire, to being a leading realtor; Billy Wygle has character and integrity. In this talk, we cover the worst sales objections I was ever taught, how Billy got started as a real estate investor, our soul-crushing moments, anti-fragility and more!

• Chapters 🔖
• 0:00 Billy's Soul-Crushing Moment!
• 0:58 The Worst Sales Objection I Was Ever Taught
• 1:21 The Sales Environment Is Different Today
• 2:28 How to Sell With Integrity
• 3:20 Is Success Resilience Born or Do You Have to Go Through Some Crisis?
• 4:10 Who Should Take Risks?
• 4:24 What Requires Hard Work, & What Requires Hard Work?
• 6:36 I am Betting on Me, & The Riskiest Job with a Pregnant Wife
• 7:22 Are You Going to Put In the Work for Your Dreams?
• 8:12 What is Anti-Fragile?
• 8:52 My Blue Collar Upbringing and an Atari
• 9:45 Soul-Crushing Moments Form Resilience in You
• 10:30 You Don't Know It When You Born in Poverty
• 11:02 The Social Contract for 37 Years
• 11:27 Everyone's Job is to Find Their Peace
• 12:23 Devil's Advocate and Unsales
• 13:16 Can You Work Hard for 2 Years for Your Dream
• 13:36 The One Question You Can Ask in All Sales Situations
• 14:06 What is Hanging In the Pocket
• 16:22 My Early Years Flipping Real Estate
• 18:20 The Boiler Room Sales Floor I Led
• 20:28 The Power of Integrity
• 21:29 How Billy Got Started as a Real Estate Investor
• 22:07 Don't Invest What You Can't Afford to Lose
• 23:00 How the First Investment Leads to the Next, Momentum in Building Financial Freedom
• 24:20 Secret to Finding Real Estate Deals Not Yet Listed
• 25:14 Why the Price of a Property Does Not Matter
• 25:58 The Building Block Skill For Most All Opportunities in Life
• 26:52 Financial Freedom Is Not Interested in This Year, but 10 Years from Now
• 28:23 How Crypto Is Easier Than We've Made It
• 29:30 Focus on Your Primary Money Machine
• 30:25 One Wealth Book Recommendation: 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad'

📗 'The Top 100 Dream Igniter' by Grant Sparks.

Spark Show ep. 244: 3 Keys to Powerful Ritual, Crypto Helping Ukrainians , & Other News!

• Why society needs ritual, and why it has been falling away
• Empowered by reconnecting with Ritual - 3 Keys
• The Role of Crypto in the Ukraine
• Galactic Wipeout! What happens when you crash 550 galaxies?

#goals #success #explodesignificance #personaldevelopment #sparkedlife #dreambig #smallbusiness #bliss #boldness #livingyourdream #crypto #adhdbizowner #financialfreedom

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Spark Show ep. 223: 4 Goals for Holiday Prep🦃, Future Pyramid Art NOW, Moon🌘 Meaning & Other News!

• 4 Ways to prep for the holidays to make the most of this season!
• How Art is Capturing Time with the Pyramids 🐫
• What is the meaning of today's moon phase?
• Emerging from Pandemic Brain to Holiday Brain!

Spark Show ep. 222: Success & Goals Glue, 3 Challenges, Dwarf Planets, Disney MashUps & Other News!

• The glue and ether that ties together all success & goals!
• 3 Challenges to level up this week!
• The youngest planet yet!
• Disney + Vocal Actor Mashups?!

#goals #success #explodesignificance #personaldevelopment #sparkedlife #dreambig #smallbusiness #bliss #boldness #livingyourdream

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Spark Show ep. 221: A Poor $100mm Artist Holocaust Survivor's Zen, Wood Sharper Than Steel? & Other News!

• The Life Lesson this holocaust survivor carried throughout his life
• What the Samurai says that matches this philosophy!
• How scientists created wood sharper than steel!
• How This $100mm Artist Died living in squalor

Spark Show ep. 214: Nightmare Balloons, Draconid Meteors, Your Quarterly Alignment Plan & Other News!

• 5 Things You Need to Ask in Your Quarterly Alignment!
• Why are the Draconids hard to see?
• You've never seen nightmare balloons,.. until now!

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Spark Show ep. 204: Why a Business Broker Rejected My Business, Saturn's Sloshy Fuzzy Tummy,  & Other News!

The 1 reason a business broker rejected my business! Don't make this same mistake! It led me to changing the way I build my business!

• What is Saturn really made of? Cassini knows!
• Confucius on what you're getting wrong in your business.
• What a business broker told me to change my direction in business!

Spark Show ep. 203: Confucius Correcting our Culture Quickly, Jupiter Ascending/Monet Descending & Other News!

2 things Confucius believes can help you, your family, and our society improve.

• An indigenous group in the Pacific Northwest has a small and powerful ritual
• A botched robbery dropped the Monet!
• Jupiter in Opposition

Spark Show ep. 187: Escape the Small Biz Plateau

2 Choices, Greek Classical Sculpture Tattoos, Devil Horn Eclipse, & Other News

You have two paths to choose from, to escape the early ruts of small business. There are really, truly only two. The way you grow, the systems you choose, and the focus of your personal brand are so diverse that you cannot linger between these two paths.

• 2 Paths to Escape the Entrepreneur Plateau
• How well do tattoos look on classical Greek sculptures? I always wanted to know!
• A rare ring-of-fire eclipse!

Spark Show ep. 185: A Dreamer's Evolutionary Role, the Lost van Gogh, Accelerating Good & Other News

• The 2.5% need more dreamers to expand human good.
• The 1800's poem by an African American about being a dreamer: 'The Dreamer'
• A newly-re-discovered van Gogh? How do we even discover new paintings by old masters?
• How you can raise up more dreamers in your world.

What are the 4 major milestones you need to clear in order to level up to your next highest self?

What we're covering in this show today:

• The 4 Challenges of taking your next level.
• The phases of Mastery that everyone goes through, which could lead to the malaise that is "hypnotic rhythm", which could rot your motivation.
• How Hawaiians express "shinnyo", personal excellence, in pandemic.
• The promised Tree Story! (Though I promised it yesterday, we passed over it in the heat of the story!)

The key to my secret millionaire mentor's rich life in flow. The riches aren't the money but the enriched encounters with others.

There is a difference between flow of work (from 'Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience') and flow in life. How my secret millionaire mentor created flow in every aspect of his life.

What we're covering today:

• How this key helped this millionaire launch into commercial real estate investing.
• How this key helped me launch into business, and enjoy my life more.
• Other News: How you can become an astronaut NOW!
• Other News: 5 Planets in the Night Sky, for a limited time only.

• Replace Being Right with Being Collaborative - Our species IS collaboration
• The Artist who Became Their Art
• Which Dark Personality Trait is good for Happiness?! What is the Dark Triad in psychology? And which produces the most amount of happiness?

Spark Show ep. 081: The Biggest Mgmt Mistake I Make, Jim Carrey Being Crazy, Waging War w/ Art Instead, & Other News!

• A Communications Freedom Framework
• Speaking From Your Future Self
• AI Trash Picking
• Art as Resistance

Spark Show ep. 080: The Pope's AI Prayer, Winning Life's Challenges, Lion in the Sky, & Other News!

• How the Pope prays about Artificial Intelligence
• The Leonid Meteor Show's Life Cycle
• Samurai Discuss a Post-Covid World

Spark Show ep. 079: 3 Stages of Effective Team, Futurist Team Skills, Warrior Women, & Other News!

• Ancient Andes Hunters
• The 3 Stages of Transformational Development
• The 3 Parallel Skills It Builds!
• Aliens in the Milky Way

State of the Spark ep. 078: Post Election, 2 Lessons from My 5 Gurus, RoboKangaru, & Other News!

• How to feel post-election
• 2 Major Lessons I learned from my 5 Gurus
• A Naked Sufi
• Montreal Art Dunes

State of the Spark ep. 077: MC Hammer Math, F.A.S.T. Imagination, My Teen Wolf Dream, & Other News!

• How We'll Drive to the Stars
• Ed Sheeran Art for Auction
• MC Hammer's take on PDE's
• How (and WHY) to return to Imagination now!

State of the Spark ep. 076: 4 Origins of Stupidity, When I Drowned Surfing, 4 Moons  & Other News!

• What ARE the different names of the moon?
• 4 Ways small business owners make stupid decisions!
• That one time I made a stupid decision that led to me nearly drowning!

Spark Show Episode 074: 3 Keys to Atomic Spark Habits

Igniting Lives of Explosive Significance - Helping you live an extraordinary life and launch your dream.

Other News

• David Lee Roth and Ancient Japanese Ink
• What do you call the time it takes for a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule? 247 Zeptoseconds!
• Neuroscience study finds non-deceptive placebos lead to genuine psychobiological effects

Sparking Principles

• Atomic Spark Habits: James Clear's book 'Atomic Habits', but sparkified.
• 3 Principles of Spark Atomic Habits in a Ferociously Fast World, and
• 4 Spark Habits to Level Up Your Focus

The world needs what you have. You can do much more than you imagine. That idea needs to launch; as a business, cause, or project! It needs to take flight. Spark Citizens are starters, entrepreneurs and innovators seeking to make a better world.

The Spark Show is Grant sharing principles, thought tools, leadership tools, and small business success to help you ignite your own life of explosive significance.

State of the Spark ep. 073: Archimedes Advantage, Destroy Yourself Well & Other News!

Spark ep. 073: Fun With Thinking Friday!

* Two-for-One Mental Model Day!
* Nazis & Painting Reparations
* AI in Yo' Ear

State of the Spark ep. 073: Archimedes Advantage, The Best Way to Destroy Yourself, & Other News!