You’re a filthy liar. You know it and I know it. You claim you’re content with life. “I have a decent job, a home, and a family who loves me, what more could I ask for?” The answer is…a hell of a lot. I don’t write about personal development because I believe in being holier […]

If we were all being honest, we’d admit we hate ourselves sometimes. We hate the parts of ourselves that we don’t tell anyone else about. We hate our shadow. Even for people who often feel good about themselves, you can’t avoid hating yourself at least some of the time at least a teeny tiny bit. […]

Starting over is all the rage in 2019. We’re always chasing the new, the novel, the fun. We live in an abundant society, but we’re sick of the mundane. Instead of being grateful for what we have, we always want more, more, and even more. Nothing’s ever enough.  Maybe we can lay the blame at […]

How to find your passion… Talk about a horse that’s been beaten to death. I like talking about topics that have been extensively covered like finding your passion, waking up early, journaling, reading, and getting motivated because there’s always a new wrinkle, insight, or useful tidbit of information to be found. So what’s my wrinkle […]

Self-help never saves you in the situations where you need it most. Affirmations aren’t going to work when your spouse leaves you. Tony Robbins won’t instantly cheer you up if you listen to his audio tape after getting fired from your job. Tim Feriss’s morning routine means absolutely nothing to working parents with children. Self-help […]

Self-leadership is the currency of success in 2019 and beyond. What do I mean? There are going to be disproportionate rewards for people who are self-reliant vs. people who need to be told what to do all the time. I have no mentors. All of the work I do is in the roles I created […]

If you want to build a network, an audience, and a tribe of like-minded peers, you need to learn how to influence people. Have you ever noticed somebody in the field you’re in (or aspire to be in) just come out of nowhere? Whenever you see someone make a meteoric rise, know that it’s often […]

Ugh, another blog post on the benefits of waking up early. Don’t we already have enough of these? Look, before we dive into the tips, let me start by saying this — you don’t have to wake up early. You’re not destined for failure if you wake up early. I’m not going to look down […]

Future notorious gangster Henry Hill walks out of the courtroom. He’s greeted by Jimmy Conway, also a notorious gangster. Henry is surprised to see Jimmy smiling. He’d been pinched — arrested for a crime and questioned by the police — after being caught illegally selling cigarettes from the back of a truck. Having, in his mind, […]

Here’s a seemingly dumb question with a counterintuitive answer: Would you rather experience a shorter or longer duration of pain? Stated this way, the answer is obvious, but Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman conducted an experiment that produced the opposite one. In the first round of the experiment, subjects put their hands in ice cold […]