Thriving: Create a Healthier, Happier, and More Prosperous Life with Rand Selig (Episode #134)

Rand SeligDr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Rand Selig, accomplished entrepreneur, coach, scoutmaster, board member, and roll-up-your-sleeves conservationist, to talk about his book Thriving!: How to Create a Healthier, Happier, and More Prosperous Life, and having the power to make choices about how to live and change, leading to enhanced vitality, a sense of purpose, and even reach our full potential. Are you Thriving? It’s not about money and material things. Our society has a problem of not knowing what is enough, and we tend to constantly want to compare ourselves to others. Rand reminds us to be superior not with your fellow man but with your former self. The trick about aging well is vitality, not longevity, and that involves having a purpose all the way to the end and being emotionally healthy. Embrace what you can control, everything after that is only about influence. Learn to clean your relationships and finish your business with other people as early as you can. Find out about writing an ethical will to those you love. Thrive with yourself, with others, with the world, and by moving ever forward in your life!

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  • What is “Thriving”?
  • Four components to Thriving
  • Thriving personally and with yourself
  • Thriving with others and your relationships
  • Thriving with the world and being of service
  • Thriving by moving ever forward in life
  • What made Rand get involved in the concept of Thriving?
  • Challenges to Thriving that achievers often face
  • The societal problem of not knowing what is enough
  • The Human Comparison Theory of constantly wanting to compare ourselves
  • Being superior to your former self and not your fellow man
  • You got to have purpose all the way to the end
  • Rand’s personal obstacles that he overcame to thrive
  • Rewiring is building your own raft
  • The trick about aging well is having vitality, not longevity
  • The multi-layered letting go process
  • Tips to being emotionally healthy – stop self-sabotaging, forgive yourself for your mistakes, just let go
  • What can you control: your attitude, the amount of effort you are willing to put into something, your behavior for the most part, the choice you make about your actions - after that is only about influence
  • Writing an ethical will to give the people you love – here’s what I wish for you
  • The emotions associated with dying – clean your relationships and finish business
  • How to contact Rand Selig

About Rand Selig:

Rand Selig is an accomplished entrepreneur, coach, scoutmaster, board member, and roll-up-your-sleeves conservationist. With an MBA from Stanford and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and psychology, he excels at managing complex projects globally. He founded and has run The Selig Capital Group for over three decades. His firm was named the best sustainable investment banking firm in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2024 by Wealth and Finance International.

He shares his extensive expertise in his book Thriving! How to Create a Healthier, Happier, and More Prosperous Life. Read more about his book at www.randselig.com. Rand is relentlessly positive and believes he can design his own life and others can, too. Based in Mill Valley, California, he enjoys life's adventures with his wife of 44 years. www.linkedin.com/in/randselig 

Rand's mission is to engage people in all stages of life about overcoming obstacles and getting on their path to thriving. While I still run my investment banking firm, my primary focus is on encouraging and inspiring people to thrive.

His father's first career was in the US Army, and they moved about every four years. As a kid, Rand spent 8 years in New Mexico and grew to love nature and animals. They spent four years in Germany, and then he went to high school in Baltimore, Maryland. He and his wife have 2 amazing adult children and 3 granddaughters. 

Connect with Rand Selig:

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Check out the book, Thriving! How to Create a Healthier, Happier, and More Prosperous Life

The premise of the book THRIVING! is that the power to make key choices in order to thrive is yours. The book helps people sort through life's complexities and discover their path to thriving every day. It's about "HOW TO BE" (not "To Be or Not to Be"). Thought leaders view the book as a great way to obtain insight, guidance, and curate wisdom that can help anyone wherever they are on their journey to become a better version of themselves.

Grab a free PDF from Thriving – Tools for Positive Thinking here: https://www.randselig.com/free

“Just think of 'Thriving' as the climate and not the weather. Any given day might not be the greatest day for you, but on average, are you thriving or not? It’s a personal kind of assessment. There are four different components to Thriving. The first is to be thriving personally. It means building character, to having gratitude, having your emotions in check – the good ones and bad ones. It means to have purpose and meaning in life. That’s half the book actually because it’s so foundational.” – Rand Selig

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Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Developmental Optometrist, previous co-owner of Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, P.C., award-winning author and international speaker, holds powerful and inspiring conversations with her guests in the areas of health, wellness, education, sports and psychology. They share their inspirational stories of healing and transformation through their vision expansion. Vision Beyond Sight Podcast will help you see with clarity, gain courage and confidence. Welcome to Vision Beyond Sight!

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About Dr. Lynn

A pioneer in vision therapy and developmental optometry, for more than 30 years, Dr. Lynn Hellerstein has helped thousands of children and adults improve their vision and transform their lives — at home, in the classroom, and most recently on the playing field. Her breakthrough methods unlock barriers to learning and “rewire” around brain injuries, and vision perception or processing deficits. But you don’t have to have a vision problem to benefit: her brain training strategies may be the missing magic if you’re an athlete trying to nail a tricky shot or stay cool in competition. If it’s a skill you can visualize, Dr. Hellerstein can help train your eyes — and mind’s eye — on success.

Award-winning and #1 bestselling author, Dr. Lynn has published numerous professional peer reviewed articles, chapters and four books.

See It. Say It. Do It! (2009) - How to see/recognize your goal, declare your intention, and taking action to achieve your vision.

See It. Say It. Do It! Organize It! (2011) - How to create a step by step process to make achieving your goal a reality.

50 Tips To Improve Your Sports Performance (2013) - How to improve your sports performance today by enhancing eye-mind-body coordination skills, achieving the mental edge, and preventing injuries.

Expand Your Vision (2021) - Discover the power of the seeing brain…the creator of your true vision. Gain Clarity, Courage, and Confidence. In this #1 Amazon best-selling innovative newest book, the power of visualizing and believing in the process to break through internal barriers and create new possibilities for achieving your goal is explored. Visualization can be used to increase creativity, to reduce stress and anxiety, and to build confidence in all of the things that they do.