Do you ever wish you could go back in time and talk to your ‘old self’? Or do you ever wish you could go back in time and be your old self, knowing everything that you know now? We’re always caught in this mental loop — thinking about the past and ruminating in the future. […]

“You’re an enigma,” he told me. I was sitting in the office with one of my marketing professors in college, trying to convince him to let me pass his class with a C. We made a deal that if I did well on the last group assignment for the year, he’d let me pass. He […]

Nothing but green. After I made my first initial deposit into my Robinhood investing account, I saw nothing but green. I didn’t have much money in there, but it felt good to see the percentage increase day by day, and most importantly to see green. Just seeing that color has a psychological pull on you. […]

I get it. Changing your life isn’t easy in and of itself. Changing your life in the midst of historically bad times makes the process even more difficult. To pretend that some pieces of self-help wisdom will automatically pull you out of your mental state is foolish. Here’s the way I look at it. Negative […]

There are two types of people in this world. There are people who focus on the way the world should work and there are people who focus on the way the world actually works. Those who focus on the way the world should work often find themselves suffering for it. They ignore human nature and […]

We adopt societal scripts that make us feel uneasy with the idea of being successful. You’re made to feel like Monty Burns from the Simpsons if you want to live what, in your opinion, is an above-average lifestyle. There’s a certain level of guilt associated with trying to achieve your long-term goals. Underneath that guilt, […]

The more I learn about self-improvement, the more I understand that much of the process involves subtraction. Instead of focusing on what to do, focus on what not to do, and avoid it. Figure what’s weighing you down so that you can let go of it and move more freely. No need to be hyper-focused […]

When I was lost, stuck, broke, and hopeless, I started diving into self-improvement and kept hearing the same piece of advice — read more books. In the span of a year, I read roughly 75 books. That year shifted my trajectory because those books opened my eyes to possibilities I didn’t know existed. This is […]

About 30 is when you realize your parents will die. It starts to hit them, too. In the past few years, I’m 31, I’ve started to have more frank conversations with my parents. I started to see them in totality, including their flaws. I started to see some of the results of the things they […]

Your relationship with yourself spills into all of your relationships, period. We’ve all had moments in our life where our relationship with ourselves was more responsible for our real-world outcomes, whether or not we want to admit it. An inability to be alone can push away partners and friends because of co-dependency. We blame other […]